Re: Geoff Huston on IP address space utilisation in 2015.

On 1 Feb 2016, at 03:29, Nishal Goburdhan <[email protected]> wrote:

> v4 run out is inevitable.  sorry, but if you’re going to waste your time trying to fix this in policy, in an environment with *very* low SNR, you’re just trying to save a very leaky bucket.

Long-term viability of the network is one thing. Where the cash associated with the single remaining supply of a scarce resource goes is another; it can either leave the continent or it can stay.

This reminds me of a similar tension in Canada relating to oil sands development: on the one hand there's an inevitable future that is not driven by carbon, so why waste time developing what is a very resource-intensive way of pulling it out of the sand; on the other hand, as the oil runs out and demand peaks over supply, there's money to be made that makes the investment arguably more worthwhile than it has ever been before.

In the case of oil there's an ecological argument for leaving the carbon in the ground. When it comes to v4 markets, there are no boats of bearded activists defending the pristine sanctity of 32-bit integers.

However, there are also established national and regional regulators that control the flow of money resulting from the oil extraction -- paraphrasing Andrew's call to arms, perhaps these particular integers are continental-scale national resources, and need some regulation that reflects that.


Joe
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