Re: Re: IPv6 only devices in home network

The reason why we have shortages of Ipv4 addresses is that too many of them 
were allocated at zero or little cost to organizations that do not need /8 
blocks. This is like how California has water shortages even when there is no 
drought because the wholesale and agricultural price for water is almost free 
causing residential users to skimp on baths so that someone else can grow 
alfalfa. They even have a radio jingle that goes something like, "doo doo yes 
tinkle no." You could say the same thing about NAT boxes.

 

If you do not put a high enough "price" (monetary or otherwise) on 
something people will tend to waste or hoard mass quantities. If the price is 
too high then people will decide to forgo buying something which is what is 
happening to 3G wireless.

 

There are some Internet Service providers in the U.S. that are willing to 
lease a static global IPv4 address for $7 dollars a month. If GM, MIT, and CMU 
had to pay that much (about $168,000,000 per month) for their /8 blocks they 
sure would lease them out. These guys are paying maybe .001 cent per month per 
address. Even if they only had to pay 10 cents per month per address there would 
be much more equitable distribution of resources.


----- Original Message ----- 

From: Steve Pollock  


To: Keith Moore ;Michael Cole 
Cc: ngtrans 

Sent: 11/1/2002 7:30:36 PM 

Subject: Re: (ngtrans) Re: IPv6 only 
devices in home network





At 12:16 AM 10/20/2002 -0400, Michael Cole wrote:

 If General Motors and MIT were to lease out their millions of unused 
global addresses, then Ipv4 shortages would not be so critical. How the hell is 
MIT going to use 24 million mumble something addresses anyways?

 

 

But...   why should -anyone- have to "pay" to use an IP 
address.

 




 

--- Michael Cole

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