From: "Peter B. Juul" <peter.juul@uni-c.dk> "There _is_ no /8 market. There are 256 /8's in the world and they are not for sale. At least that's what I've been told for years...." ==== told by whom ?...those leasing them ?...and sub-leasing parts of them ? If you set the AM/FM bit to 0 there are 256...set it to 1 and you have another 256... http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space ...when TOS=0 Set TOS not equal to 0x00,0x*0,0x0* and you have 16 times that many... http://www.NetFilter.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter B. Juul" <peter.juul@uni-c.dk> To: <lir-wg@ripe.net> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 3:03 AM Subject: Re: [lir-wg] RIPE Payments to ICANN
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 09:41:18PM -0600, Jim Fleming wrote:
The U.S. Department of Commerce has indicated that it wants ICANN to be well-funded. The market value for each /8 is about $168,000,000 per year.
What "market value"?
A market value is set by figuring out at which cost the market will still buy enough of an item to turn maximum profit.
There _is_ no /8 market. There are 256 /8's in the world and they are not for sale. At least that's what I've been told for years and have told my customers again and again: IP addresses are not for sale, but you can borrow the amount of addresses you realistically need.
If /8's are considered an item to buy and sell both ICANN and the RIRs have failed doing what they are supposed to do.
Peter B. Juul, Uni·C (PBJ255-RIPE)