[lir-wg] RIPE Payments to ICANN

From: "Peter B. Juul" <peter.juul at uni-c.dk>
"There _is_ no /8 market. There are 256 /8's in the world and they are not
for sale. At least that's what I've been told for years...."
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told by whom ?...those leasing them ?...and sub-leasing parts of them ?

If you set the AM/FM bit to 0 there are 256...set it to 1 and you have another 256...
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space
...when TOS=0

Set TOS not equal to 0x00,0x*0,0x0* and you have 16 times that many...

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter B. Juul" <peter.juul at uni-c.dk>
To: <lir-wg at ripe.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 3:03 AM
Subject: Re: [lir-wg] RIPE Payments to ICANN


> On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 09:41:18PM -0600, Jim Fleming wrote:
>
> > The U.S. Department of Commerce has indicated that it wants ICANN to be well-funded.
> > The market value for each /8 is about $168,000,000 per year.
>
> What "market value"?
>
> A market value is set by figuring out at which cost the market will still
> buy enough of an item to turn maximum profit.
>
> There _is_ no /8 market. There are 256 /8's in the world and they are not
> for sale. At least that's what I've been told for years and have told my
> customers again and again: IP addresses are not for sale, but you can borrow
> the amount of addresses you realistically need.
>
> If /8's are considered an item to buy and sell both ICANN and the RIRs have
> failed doing what they are supposed to do.
>
> Peter B. Juul,
> Uni·C (PBJ255-RIPE)
>