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

Also note that it is very well possible that there will be business
takeovers just for the IP addresses in the future. That is not really
unlikely with these prices (as soon as it is cheaper to buy a company than
to buy their address space someone will buy the company probably).

Greets, Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: address-policy-wg-admin at ripe.net
[mailto:address-policy-wg-admin at ripe.net] On Behalf Of Marco Hogewoning
Sent: maandag 6 juli 2009 20:20
To: David Conrad
Cc: address-policy-wg at ripe.net
Subject: Re: [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