On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:51:31AM +0200, Tomas Hlavacek wrote:
With pay-per-IP model we have two options: 1) We can set fee really high to stimulate people to return their unused resources or even higher to force people to deploy CGNs and redesign networks in order to return resources that are currently in use. But if this ever happened,
These fees would have to be higher than the profit they could expect from "selling" them to have that impact. If they were, that would possibly drive the market value up, thus making those resources an even *more valuable* asset so the fee would have to play catch-up all the time. Besides, all of this discussion is *still* about ipv4 and focused on getting LIRs to return IPv4 space so they can be re-allocated thus infinitely prolonging the survival of this obsolete and now largely unavailable technology. I'd much rather see the NCC abandoning all support for IPv4 and starting again with ipv6 only. And yes, I know that isn't really possible... rgds, Sascha Luck