[address-policy-wg] does 2007-08 open the doors to address trading?

On 8 Oct 2008, at 17:14, <michael.dillon at bt.com> wrote:

> Anyone who looks at this aspect of the issue will see that huge  
> amounts of
> the IPv4 address space are tied up in this way and are very unlikely
> to ever be transferred to another company if it appears that IP
> addresses have some monetary value.

I'm not sure it's as simple as that. If/when IP addresses have a more  
visible monetary value than they do today, I would expect that will  
create nasty accounting/auditing/taxation problems. For example when  
an "asset" that the organisation has "owned" for years suddenly  
appears from out of nowhere on the organisation's balance sheet.
If the organisation has no need for some of its IP space and it's not  
*that* valuable, a CFO might be minded to hand it back rather than  
face the prospect of retrospectively readjusting their accounts and  
tax returns for the last umpteen years.