Heh.
I know someone who wants to offer a class B at seven figures and for class B's
that "sold" for 5 figures. And you say addresses have no value.
Ah, nostalgia. It's so nice to revisit old "discussions"...
Rgds,
-drc
Bill Manning wrote:
>
> Sigh,
> Please -NOT- the PIARA again. There is near zero value in the
> number/address and very real value in the routing slot. Perhaps it is
> best to simply have ebone route filter on the /16 boundaries to drive
> home your point. (being cranky this morning)
>
> % I would like to see a market develop for IPv4 addresses, along the
> % lines of the late PIARA work. This would also encourage a
> % market for routing-table entries, both of which would produce a significant
> % incentive to dramatically improve upon on-the-fly host-renumbering.
> %
> % Sean.
> %
> % P.S. by "routing-table entries", I mean of course, not just the
> % consumption of memory and CPU resources in forwarding packets
> % in to large numbers of possible destinations, but also the cost
> % in various resources (bandwidth, CPU, complexity) of acquiring
> % and propagating information which may lead to routing-table changes.
> %
> %
>
> --
> --bill
>
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