on 6/19/2003 12:59 PM Keith Moore wrote:
Yeah, that there's a subset who cares. They got it. The market is
working.
the market is dysfunctional. it doesn't always fail to deliver what is
needed, but it often does.
I wouldn't say that this market is dysfunctional, more that markets aren't
always self-deterministic (regulations and laws are another form of this),
and that the market is as functional as can be expected considering the
restrictions that folks usually work under. Folks can't always get a range
of addresses from their provider, or can't get a routable block of private
addresses, or don't want to depend on a single provider, or whatever. I
mean, I certainly wouldn't be using a NAT on my home network if I had kept
the multiple Class C blocks I used to have, so really the problem is that
the market isn't offering the full range of appropriate choices. People
have chosen something that mostly works (or have been lied to), rather
than chosing the best option (which is not available).
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