[BULK] Re: [address-policy-wg] 2007-08 New Draft Document Published (Enabling Methods for Reallocation of IPv4 Resources)

> I wish I could share your faith.  I'm very sure that the 
> powers that decide in your company will recognize the market 
> value of IPv4 address blocks, as soon as the addresses run 
> out, and find a way to make money out of them.  Especially 
> large companies are expert at moving assets to daughter 
> companies and selling those.

I think the ETNO consensus shows that the large companies running IP
networks in Europe do not think that way about IP addresses. In
particular, the effort required (and associated cost) in order to move
IP assets into daughter companies, is not really justifiable for a
flash-in-the-pan market. 

Any market for IPv4 addresses will only exist for a short time, and high
prices which would justify this type of sale will exist for an even
shorter time. It is just not that expensive to transition to IPv6. Most
of the cost nowadays, lies in development of a fully transparent
IPv4-IPv6 Internet access service. That work is now being done openly by
many companies, and when the IPv4 shortage starts to be felt, most
companies will be in a position to roll out IPv6 without excessive
costs.

--Michael Dillon