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On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:23:53 +0100 Eliot Lear <[email protected]> wrote: > Steve, > > 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? > > > > This is a strong argument for regulation of the market. A regulated > market could provide liquidity needed by those who would otherwise > find <unregulated> means to accomplish their ends (such as making > private deals that are perhaps undetectable). I have no problem with regulating markets -- I tend to think they work better that way. (He ducks, fending off the attacks of maddened libertarians...) > It provides an > incentive for people to do the right thing, assuming the cost of > doing so is not prohibitive (a big assumption if ever there was one). > That's something the market will do very well: balancing the profits against the cost of renumbering. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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