On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 02:28:11PM +0200, Sascha Lenz wrote:
But in a mostly business driven internet, in a mostly marked based economy today, it's really hard to explain why one shouldn't be able make money out of a scarce resource.
I'm generally opposed to a market-based approach because the commodification of a commons will almost inevitably lead to abuse and to the players trying to cling on to IPv4 even longer. I can even foresee a situation where someone with a "valuable" ipv4 allocation could take an injunction to stop the roll-out of ipv6 because it would devalue their "investment". And yes, they will find a judge stupid or corrupt enough to decide so, especially in NL if I look at what the likes of BREIN get away with in the courts... rgds, Sascha Luck