Pedja,
There are so few purchasers for an IP Block of this size, it would be pointless to have a public sale. The largest consumers of legacy IPv4 address space are hosting/cloud companies. Only the top 3 largest cloud companies would have an appetite for a large IP Block like this, and of those 3 companies, one is substantially larger than the other two.
Selling this off as a /24 at a time would be difficult, onerous, and bring in drips and dribbles of non-material amounts of money for this underutilized asset. Selling it as one large chunk is appropriate for this type of resource.
It's also not a unique transaction, and there are benchmarks for this sort of transaction. Such as: https://www.networkworld.com/article/3191503/mit-selling-8-million-coveted-i...
Randy, W3RWN / VE3RWN
On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 10:59 AM Pedja YT9TP via 44Net < 44net@mailman.ampr.org> wrote:
On 05.08.2019 16:08, EA1HET Jonathan Gonzalez via 44Net wrote:
I don’t have any concern, and I think we shouldn’t have it as a group,
in regard to how AMPR could handle the budget obtained from breaking up the 44/8 IP address space block. I did not have much concern until the latest news ow spending money for some ones personal gain.
First we had secret sale of IP block. After it happened we were told that it was on buyer's request. It sounded strange.
It is reasonable that buyer wants his identity, and even offer secret and should be obliged. But, keeping secret fact that IP block was on sale was actually damaging for seller. If it was publicly known, other interested parties could show and offer more. As you said IP addresses are like gold. When you have such goods for sale, you make sure everyone that may be interested knows about it as it guarantees higher price.
Then we have this, first money that is spend is spend on personal behalf. I expected it could go for some equipment or services, or starting projects to enhance 44net, that are for everyones good, but no, it goes to private pockets.
I must say trust is seriously breached.
-- 73, Pedja YT9TP
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