Per,
On Feb 19, 2008, at 12:22 AM, Per Heldal wrote:
A price-tag may create an incentive to sell, but doesn't create more
units
or magically solve other problems (e.g. fragmentation).
It doesn't create more units, but it does increase the incentive to
find ways to be more efficient in use. Does MIT really need a /8?
Does InterOp? Does HP need 2 plus a bunch of /16s? Etc. In the
extreme, does any reasonably sized organization really _need_ more
than a few /32s (which could be allocated out of PA space thereby
reducing fragmentation) for their NAT gateway and public facing
servers? How many ISPs still allocate from a small set of fixed size
block to customers regardless of what the customers actually _need_,
simply because that's what their backend systems were written to do?
Many are those
who look forward to a v4 market. Not to invest in in, but because will
be the most powerful catalyst driving the transition to v6.
That's the optimistic view...
Regards,
-drc
