Heh.
I know someone who wants to offer a class B at seven figures and for class B's
that "sold" for 5 figures. And you say addresses have no value.
Ah, nostalgia. It's so nice to revisit old "discussions"...
Rgds,
-drc
Bill Manning wrote:
Sigh,
Please -NOT- the PIARA again. There is near zero value in the
number/address and very real value in the routing slot. Perhaps it is
best to simply have ebone route filter on the /16 boundaries to drive
home your point. (being cranky this morning)
% I would like to see a market develop for IPv4 addresses, along the
% lines of the late PIARA work. This would also encourage a
% market for routing-table entries, both of which would produce a significant
% incentive to dramatically improve upon on-the-fly host-renumbering.
%
% Sean.
%
% P.S. by "routing-table entries", I mean of course, not just the
% consumption of memory and CPU resources in forwarding packets
% in to large numbers of possible destinations, but also the cost
% in various resources (bandwidth, CPU, complexity) of acquiring
% and propagating information which may lead to routing-table changes.
%
%
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--bill
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