Michael, On 10/29/07 8:38 AM, "michael.dillon@bt.com" <michael.dillon@bt.com> wrote:
The address space in question is already allocated, hence unavailable. The question is how to incent folks to put their "allocated but unused" address space back into play. Stamping your foot and declaring "markets are bad" isn't likely to be too helpful.
And thinking that you can influence address-holders decision making without pricing an IPv4 at several hundred thousand dollars, is also not likely to be too helpful.
The price point at which people are influenced is a bit beyond my psychic abilities to divine. I believe the appropriate phrase here is "what the market will bear".
Any organization who contemplates selling a block of IPv4 addresses has to conside the reality ...
And the appropriate phrase here would be "buyer (and seller) beware". The fact that a black (or grey) market exists would seem to imply there are people who have made the evaluation that it is in their best interests to sell off address space they do not need. Regards, -drc