[address-policy-wg] RE: The price of address space

David Conrad wrote:

> As the cost of IPv4 goes up, there will be increasing incentives to  
> make more efficient use of the address space.

Technically speaking , so true. 

Today, it is not neccesary to deploy IPv6 at all.

> People will consolidate  
> their address holdings, putting their allocated-but-unused IPv4  address 
> onto the market.  Since this is increasing the supply of  usable IPv4 
> addresses, this will tend to drive the price down.

Not at all.

Unless NICs reduce supply to a demand, enforcing the deployment of
"more efficient use of the address space", LIRs will keep consuming
the same amount of addresses, because, there is no economical
drive for them to do otherwise and big economical drive to do so.

That is, "more efficient use of the address space" may cost more
and because "more efficient use of the address space" may be
deployed after IPv4 addresses are exhausted, which means the LIRs
can sell part of its address space, now not necessary for them,
at very high price.

> And you don't believe the anticipation of IPv6 deployment would have a  
> depressive effect on an IPv4 market?

There would have been an effect, if most people had believed that
IPv6 transition would have been completed long before IPv4 address
exhaustion.

						Masataka Ohta