[arin-ppml] IPv4 Depletion as an ARIN policy concern

[Warren Johnson]

>  If IP
> addresses wind up trading at $200 per IP, that puts a million of them 
> at 200,000,000.

Your math is simplistic. If there aren't very many IPv4 addresses available,
then $200 per IPv4 address seems a likely cost. But there will only be 256
addresses on offer. To get a million IPv4 addresses will require you to pay
billions of dollars to shake them loose, to the extent of buying controlling
interest in the IPv4 address holder. There is no IPv4 address market, and
there is not likely to ever be such a market as IPv4 addresses become
scarcer and scarcer as every day passes. Yes, their value rises, but the
supply is shrinking faster than the rise in value.

[WDJ]
If the value is high enough, the Ips will be available.  You can bet on
that.