[address-policy-wg] Re: [arin-ppml] Offer to buy IP address block (was Spectrum and IP address reservations)
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Chris Grundemann
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Thu Jul 23 00:00:14 CEST 2009
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 09:18, <michael.dillon at bt.com> wrote: > >> More specifically, in this context I think that the tendency >> to assume that market mechanisms would infallibly convert the >> fact/existence/ supply of additional loose (de-assignable, >> transferable, etc.) IPv4 into the enduring condition of >> greater openness to aspiring new entrants is based on the >> widespread (mis)perception of individual IPv4 addresses and >> prefixes as "things" (assets, commodities, etc.), when in >> fact they actually represent something more like discrete >> instances of a "generalized privilege" or "license" (as in >> "creative license" >> even more than "driver's license"). > > The minimum ARIN allocation to a new ISP is currently a /20. > Someone recently offered an American ISP 6 figures for a > /20 block that was acquired as part of a corporate acquisition. > The ISP declined the offer and returned the block to ARIN. > > This could mean that the value of a /20 on the open market is > 100,000 USD. Since a /20 has 16 /24 equivalents in it, that would > place the value of a /24 at 6250 USD. http://xkcd.com/605/ > According to > <https://www.arin.net/knowledge/statistics/> > in the first 6 months of 2009, ARIN issued 99,285 /24 equivalents > to ISPs. That means that ARIN issued 620,531,250 USD worth > of IP addresses. Over the course of 2009 we can expect some > 1.2 billion dollars worth of IPv4 addresses to be allocated > to ISPs, or $103 million per month. > > Where is the industry going to find 1.2 billion dollars to sustain > growth of the network after IPv4 runout? And where is a new entrant > going to find $100,000 to buy their first allocation, assuming that > the price doesn't rise even higher when the free alternative no > longer exists? > > Will the prices in Europe be any different than in America? > Why? > > --Michael Dillon > > P.S. note that there are more predictable costs to an ISP > in deploying either carrier-grade NAT or transitioning to IPv6. > How will this impact IP address block prices and why? > _______________________________________________ > PPML > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List (ARIN-PPML at arin.net). > Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: > http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml > Please contact info at arin.net if you experience any issues. > -- Chris Grundemann weblog.chrisgrundemann.com www.twitter.com/chrisgrundemann www.coisoc.org
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