Re: Fwd: Suggestion: charging for IPv4 space

Gert and all,

  No it's never easy for me.  But if the shoe fits...  Can't deny the
history, Gert.

Gert Doering wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:05:20PM -0700, Jeffrey A. Williams wrote:
> >   Your porbably right that it's too late to be dramatically effective.
> > What this demonstrates to me as the lack of good IP address
> > managment historically.  Sorry to be so blunt.
>
> It's very convenient to put up a big "blame them!" poster, no?
>
> If you're a bit more realistic about it: there is no way to do "good
> IPv4 address management" in a way that makes enough IPv4 addresses for
> every person on earth.  4 billion vs. 6.7 billion as of june 2008.
>
> Being more restrictive in the early days would probably make IPv4 last
> 5 or 10 years longer - and then there are *more* people affected by the
> migration to "something large enough".  So what had we gained?
>
> Gert Doering
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