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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:18:10 -0800 David Conrad <[email protected]> wrote: > > Michael, > > On Feb 18, 2008, at 10:15 AM, <[email protected]> > <[email protected] > > wrote: > > We cannot possibly hope to create > > a market within the next two years which is beneficial to > > the Internet network operations industry. > > A market will exist whether or not "we" want to create it and it > doesn't matter how long lived it is. Without some form of > regulation (a bit hard since it would need to be applied globally), > it is almost certain it will be extremely painful and folks who > "shouldn't" make lots of money will. So it goes. Yah. A market exists today, though it's perforce sub rosa. An interesting operational question is how to prevent deaggregation as a result of a market. If, say, a company isn't using half of its address space, could it sell that half, to several other parties? Can that be prevented by market means? See http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/piara/index.html for a paper I and some others wrote some years ago on these topics. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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