On Jun 19, 2026, at 12:19 PM, Saku Ytti <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jun 2026 at 11:32, David Conrad <[email protected]> wrote: >> "Big tech shops” buying up all the addresses would drive the asset value up, >> increasing the likelihood the beancounters will see incentives to migrate. > It is an irrelevant cost to them. There is more value to them that > competitors cannot have them. Hence antitrust.
I was speaking of SMBs. They might (historically were, in my experience) be interested in the asset sale, particularly as they moved to the cloud/SAAS and defensively reduced their public Internet exposure. > Free market won't fix the problem we created. I have some skepticism that a “turn off IPv4 day” mandate from (some) network operators will change things significantly, but I’m frequently wrong. Regards, -drc
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