[address-policy-wg] The final /8 policy proposals, part 2

On Jul 6, 2009, at 8:14 PM, David Conrad wrote:

> Marco,
>
> On Jul 6, 2009, at 10:54 AM, Marco Hogewoning wrote:
>> Haven't got a clue on what current prises are for /24 on the black  
>> market.
>
> I've seen prices ranging from US $<hundreds> to US $<low thousands>,  
> but that was some time ago.
>
>> But we all know that not any amount of money will create more  
>> addresses as we currently have, so why not 1,000,000,000,000,000  
>> dollar.
>
> It isn't about creating more addresses.  It is about using the  
> existing addresses more efficiently.  Given the widespread  
> availability of NAT, how many addresses does the average  
> organization actually need? Two (one for their NAT gateway, one for  
> their publicly available services)?  Particularly if they have a  
> financial incentive to use address space more efficiently?
>

Being more efficient is only the start. In the end is 7 billion people  
vs less then 4 billion addresses. Rhere simply ain't a way around it,  
face it and deploy IPv6 or somewhere somebody will pay these prices  
(or more likely start a war).

MarcoH