[address-policy-wg] [Ticket#2012092701011684] Sub-allocations - fast and simple re-using IP-addresses

* Michiel Klaver

> Removing the needs-based requirement would break open the entire IPv4
> market, letting big corporations to buy everything available and then decide
> who they are willing to sell it for the highest price.
> 
> IP addresses will become a tool to obstruct competitors, wipe-out all
> smaller players and locking the market for newcomers. An authority
> validating each request with the current policies could somewhat prevent
> that from happening.

You could say the same thing about real estate or pretty much any other
freely traded resource in the world, and yet the sky isn't falling. In a
competitive market, supply and demand will regulate the prices.
Otherwise, there's plenty of laws governing cartels, monopolies, price
fixing, anti-competitive practises, and so forth.

-- 
Tore Anderson
Redpill Linpro AS - http://www.redpill-linpro.com/