RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit

["John Lee" <John () internetassociatesllc com>]

Distribution:
 
This "idea" comes from clueless individuals who want to know "who owns the Internet"? When I worked at Enron Broadband 
Services "the crooked E", management wanted to buy PSInet so that "we" could developed a trading desk for IP address 
blocks.
 
We informed management that neither EBS or PSInet owned their IP addresses but rented them from ARIN. And when the 
organization indicates that IP addresses are no longer needed, they can be returned to ARIN or ARIN can come and get 
them from the organization per ARIN AUP and other policies that users signed when making a request to ARIN. (Review a 
court case several years ago, about a company going into bankruptcy, I believe, claiming that "their" IP addresses were 
part of the assets of the company...)
 
Now for those who could not follow the last paragraph, the analogy is when you were young and renting your apartment or 
house and you wanted to make money selling one of the rooms of your rented apartment or house. 
 
So anyone with spare /16 or larger send the blocks back to ARIN so they can be good stewards of the diminishing 
resource.
 
John (ISDN) Lee
I Still Don't kNow
It Suites Dennis's Needs

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From: owner-nanog () merit edu on behalf of Raymond Macharia
Sent: Mon 2/18/2008 8:39 AM
To: 'NANOG list'
Subject: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit




Hello
the article here
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/021308-ipv6-delay.html is an
interesting read given the current state of IPv4 depletion/IPv6 conversion
operational climate.
As it is indicated, it's a proposal and there are considerations as to
whether it makes things better or worse.

Regards

Raymond Macharia