On Dec 9, 2011, at 1:07 PM, Fred Baker wrote: > On Dec 9, 2011, at 10:37 AM, Franck Martin wrote: > >> I just had a personal email from a brand new ISP in the Asia-Pacific area >> desperately looking for enough IPv4 to be able to run their business the way >> they would like… >> >> This is just a data point. > > We're going to be hearing a lot more of these. It's the nature of finite > resources, and of human nature when faced with them. At some point, this will > find its way into courtrooms under the rubric of a barrier to entry. It > already has in terms of antitrust when a company wanted to move its PA prefix > to different upstream.
+1 to Fred's comments. Hopefully, the existence of an open IPv4 address market will help avoid some of the worst. (At least for a while, until the rising prices get too high for a competitive environment. And maybe by then the price of IPv4 addresses will have made IPv6 deployment a much more obvious choice to reluctant CFO-types.) Cheers, -Benson --- Disclaimers: 1. I am not a lawyer, and nothing in this message should be construed as advice. 2. I, Benson Schliesser, am an employee of Cisco Systems; however, opinions expressed in this email are my own views and not those of Cisco Systems or anybody else.
