[arin-ppml] "Could the Internet run out of space?" (CNN; quotes from Ben Edelman)

[Scott Beuker]

I think this quote speaks volumes about how much thought has been put
into the repercussions of an open market:

<quote>
But would this mean ordinary Web users having to pay in order to surf?
Edelman believes not.

"If this transition goes smoothly, consumers should never notice. To
date, IP addresses have been a trivially small part of the cost of
Internet access and Web site hosting. Even if IP address prices
increased 100 times, consumers still probably wouldn't notice," he said.
</quote>

Funny thing about the variables 'supply' and 'demand', if you
miscalculate them, your results can be quite off.

- Scott

> -----Original Message-----
> From: arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net]
On
> Behalf Of Kevin Kargel
> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 9:46 AM
> To: Ron Cleven; ppml at arin.net
> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] "Could the Internet run out of space?"
> (CNN;quotes from Ben Edelman)
> 
> > From: arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net]
> > On Behalf Of Ron Cleven
> > Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 9:53 AM
> > To: ppml at arin.net
> > Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] "Could the Internet run out of space?"
> > (CNN;quotes from Ben Edelman)
> >
> > Gee, what an idea!  I guess it sounds smarter when someone from
> > Harvard says it.
> >
> > Paul Vixie wrote:
> >
> > > http://www.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/03/28/execed.websites/index.html
> 
> Amazing, you would almost think that Harvard had a whole bunch of IP's
> they weren't using that they would like to sell at a profit!  lol