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

[Kevin Kargel]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net] On
> Behalf Of Scott Beuker
> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 4:48 PM
> To: ppml at arin.net
> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] "Could the Internet run out of space?"
> (CNN;quotes from Ben Edelman)
> 
> 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
> 
Agreed, my fear is not that the cost of IP addresses will go up 100 times, I
fear it will go up tens or hundreds of thousands of times..

Kevin
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