shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com
Sat Mar 4 01:31:28 UTC 2006


On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 09:50:55PM +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> 
> On 3-mrt-2006, at 21:43, Brandon Ross wrote:
> 
> >>I will bet anyone reading this $ 20 USD right now that what will  
> >>actually happen is the development of a spot market in IPv4  
> >>address space.
> 
> >That's a sucker bet.
> 
> >What's worse is that unless people start changing their tune soon  
> >and make the ownership of IP space official, this will be a black  
> >market (like it is now, just much bigger).
> 
> But that will end as soon as interdomain routing is protected by  
> certificates given out by the RIRs.

	er, not at all. RIR's issuing certificates and expecting 
	the routing system to kowtow is a stretch.

--bill	



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