[address-policy-wg] RE: The price of address space
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bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com
bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com
Thu Jul 23 11:51:44 CEST 2009
> etc. And if/when there is a mass uptake of IPv6, IPv4 space will > become as valuable as VHS tape: impossible to even give away. and one of my 80's bands just released their latest on 8track... no MP3, no LP, no CD... an 8track. I hate them. > that the price of a scarce resource can only increase: how much is a > LaserDisc player worth today? depends on how badly I need to watch the ChuckJones pre-estate fight, can't get anywhere else but the laser-disk version of BugsBunny. > >at predicting minimum and maximum prices relative to a hard currency, > >i.e. ounces of gold or barrels of crude, or Big Macs. BigMacs are only hard if left out for 6years.. takes that long for the bun to toughen up. > >P.S. My position is that IPv6 is the answer > > I agree wholeheartedly. My personal opinion is to leave the IPv4 > policies as they are. Any changes will be like re-arranging the > deckchairs on the Titanic. And will look bad to the outside world when > they finally wake up to the imminent exhaustion of IPv4 space. We > should stop worrying about IPv4 or speculating about what a future > market in IPv4 might look like. [Though an open question is what the > role of the RIRs might be in that market.] IMO, it's best to > concentrate on IPv6 deployment and getting on with that migration. pragmatically, there is a genuine need to retain IPv4 for the forseeable future - at least until significant software replacement is done. Too much depends on an IPv4 like thing (AAA, radius, SYSLOG, SNMP, etc) to expect wholesale abandonment of v4 in the next - say - 5-10 years. v4 just won't be wasted on endsystems :) (and Jim, you use of technologies that have been OBE'd in the commodity space was a joyful trip down memory lane.... ) --bill
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