Hi, On Thu, Jun 04, 2026 at 01:55:57AM +0200, Niels Dettenbach via members-discuss wrote:
But to be true: i personally know several very large and old companies holding IP space from very early RIPE times in huge amounts (i.e. /16), while practically using few percent of it (1-2 /24) and by consolidating would need even much less. If costs would significaantly go up to them, it would make pressure to change the space for smaller space or at least sell (or rent) more space out to the market, leading to lower prices.
If they would seriously care about *monetary* incentives, they could just sell off the /16 - at the current rate of about US$ 30 for a clean network, that would be roughly 2 million US$. Quite a big carrot.
With higher fees pressure to give up such ressources will go up.
For the stick to reach that level of carrotness, the prices would need to go up to fairly insane heights - and the NCC doesn't actually need that much money (though I'm sure they would find interesting uses for it). Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard, Karin Schuler, Sebastian Cler Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: Dr. Frank Thiäner D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279