one word. RFC 1918. Here is an perpetual well of IPv4, packed down, overflowing.
manning bmann...@karoshi.com PO Box 12317 Marina del Rey, CA 90295 310.322.8102 On 9July2015Thursday, at 6:02, Mark Tinka <mark.ti...@seacom.mu> wrote: > > > On 9/Jul/15 14:53, Baldur Norddahl wrote: >> >> That will never happen. If you offer me $1000 per IPv4, then I will happily >> terminate some user contracts and sell their IP space to you... >> >> In fact it will never become even that expensive. With a marked price of >> $10 I am buying IP space for customers as needed and I will include free >> space in the contracts. If the price went to $100 I would tell all users >> that they need to pay monthly rent for their IP or alternative, the user >> would have to accept carrier NAT in some form. And then I would proceed to >> buy a new house for the money I make by selling address space. >> >> There is a ton of address space that is inefficient used. We will be able >> to buy excess from companies that "create" space by optimizing their >> existing space. There is a reason we have not seen any rise in the price >> even after multiple years with depletion in large parts of the world. > > In this particular case, I'm not concerned about the next ten years. > Predicting what happens between now and then could have a fair degree of > accuracy. > > I'm more concerned about what happens beyond that. I'm not sure I can > accurately (even with large error margins) predict what happens then. > > All that said, I'm not trying to paint myself into that kind of corner. > It is 2015, after all... Just don't tell my competitors... > > Mark.
