Anyone want to by a 3? :)
The value is not the number but its percived routablity.
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% Heh.
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% 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.
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% Ah, nostalgia. It's so nice to revisit old "discussions"...
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% Rgds,
% -drc
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% 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.
% > %
% > %
% >
% > --
% > --bill
% >
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