On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
Let's say we put a price of $1 per year per IP address you want allocated to
you. For the people really using their IP addresses according to current
policy, this is nothing. For the people with historic allocations (/8 for
instance), they would really have to think if it's worth $16m to keep that
/8. Most likely scenario is that this would free up a lot of IPv4 address
space.
If this causes migration to IPv6, well, so be it. I seriously doubt it, only
thing I think would happen is that we would free up IPv4 space and it would
live longer.
I'd love to see something like that (even better: charging by what
you advertise).. but unfortunately, I don't think it'd happen, and if
it did, I guess the main folks benefiting would be lawyers.. :)
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Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds."
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