[ppml] rubber/road

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeroen Massar [mailto:jeroen at unfix.org]
>Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 4:05 PM
>To: Ted Mittelstaedt
>Cc: Randy Bush; Public Policy Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [ppml] rubber/road
>
>
>Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>[..]
>> In 2 years a policy could be submitted and
>> approved that would radically raise prices on the IPv6 block and
>> require you to pay for both blocks.  As long as both allocations
>> (IPv4 and IPv6) are separate, the fear of getting jacked over in
>> the future is a real possibility.
>
>My magic crystal ball tells me that IPv4 address space will become
>pricey, as that is the resource running out, not IPv6 space.
>
>You can make all kinds of weird assumptions about the future, one
>thing is sure: IPv4 address space won't be available anymore from the
>RIRs in a couple of years. The blackmarket will have it for you though.
>

Once IPv4 space is no longer needed for routing on the Internet, if the
fees for IPv6 are practically nothing, how exactly is ARIN going to
stay in business?  Selling peat?

Ted