What I am getting at is this is millions of dollars worth of IP real estate. There are no rules defining how it is to be used other than self imposed rules. As the market seems to be at a peek I think it is worth discussion to lease addresses to some major player like Google or Amazon in exchange for POP access, funding of an endowment for future research, hardware, ect. What is the value of lets say 2 million contiguous addresses on the open market?
Lin N4YCI
On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 10:32 AM Mark Phillips g7ltt@g7ltt.com wrote:
"I would see a more likely situation of a theft of parts of the space"
This has been happening for quite some time. When I first arrived in America some 20 years ago to work for NASDAQ I discovered that their test network was using the 44/8 series of IP's. I flagged this up at the time o this list. Luckily for us they are using it as a private point to point network.
Mark G7LTT/NI2O
On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 7:58 AM Lin Holcomb <LHolcomb@clearqualitygroup.com
wrote:
I would see a more likely situation of a theft of parts of the space.
This
has already occurred on a small scale. It takes money to defend patents
it
talks money to operate 16m addresses.
I was just suggesting lease a few blocks to have income to further the
use
by hams, provide capital to provide low cost pops and have additional access points in the event the deal at UCSD ever goes away. Do this while the price is high to form an endowment to run the technology in the
future.
Lin On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 6:10 AM Tony Ellis tonyellis3.te@gmail.com
wrote:
IPv6 is already here. My mobile phone is dual stack, IPv4 and IPv6, it will continue to grow and like everything, it is just a matter of time. Some of my ISP's are dual stacked, etc. Will IPv4 go away, my best
guess
is 2090....???
On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 9:40 PM Neil Johnson <neil.johnson@erudicon.com
wrote:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18407173
Note: I'm NOT advocating anything like that for 44.0.0.0/8.
It's just going to be fun to watch the market for IPv4 address space
boom
and then bust when IPv6 adoption finally reaches critical mass.
-Neil, N0SFH
Neil Johnson