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

[michael.dillon at bt.com]

> Long before it hits $1M per address, the US Congress will 
> step in and smack us down for facilitating the hording of an 
> economically critical resource. 

The US Congress does not act quickly enough to smack anyone
down. Long before they get a chance to act, there will be
horror in the boardrooms of companies who haven't pushed their
IPv6 deployment programs ahead enough. And the sobre second 
thoughts in those boardrooms will be that it is better to
get their deployment programs in gear than it is to wait and
hope that Congress can do anything meaningful. Because there
is a whole world out there where Congressional acts are
meaningless.

The smart money is already moving towards IPv6 so that they
can put all of this complexity and uncertainty and politicking
of IPv4, behind them.

Anybody who pays $1 millon for an IPv4 address is just shooting
themselves in the foot because that very act of offering to pay
such a high sum will light a fire under all of their competitors
to move to IPv6 sooner, and since a network based business
requires the same protocol as its competitors, that price offer
will drastically shorten the period of time in which the buyer
gets to exploit their purchase. 

--Michael Dillon