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Re: IPv6 Thought Experiment
From: Daniel Seagraves <dseagrav () humancapitaldev com>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 16:13:12 -0500
On Oct 2, 2019, at 4:04 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org> wrote: Antonios Chariton wrote on 02/10/2019 17:33:What if, globally, and starting at January 1st, 2020, someone (imagine a government or similar, but with global reach) imposed an IPv4 tax. For every IPv4 address on the Global Internet Routing Table, you had to pay a tax. Let’s assume that this can be imposed, must be paid, and cannot be avoided using some loophole. Let’s say that this tax would be $2, and it would double, every 3 or 6 months.Interesting idea. Let's say it started off at $2 / month and doubled every 3 months. At the end of month 12, it would be $32/month. After 5 years, we'd be talking about just over $2 million per IP address per month, i.e. a little over half a billion dollars per /24.
What happens when v4 is gone? Surely you won’t let it end there - After all, If you have the ability and infrastructure to do this, why not tax IPv6 too? This would cut down on the number of “undesirables" on the internet by pricing it out of the reach of all but the largest megacorporations. Eventually we can reduce the internet to a few dozen authorized parties in each region and we’ll only need enough IP addresses for those. I can imagine a number of governments around the world would be very interested in this.
Current thread:
- Re: IPv6 Pain Experiment, (continued)
- Re: IPv6 Pain Experiment Mark Andrews (Oct 03)
- Re: IPv6 Pain Experiment Seth Mattinen (Oct 03)
- Re: IPv6 Thought Experiment Steve Pointer (Oct 02)
- Re: IPv6 Thought Experiment Job Snijders (Oct 02)
- Re: IPv6 Thought Experiment Antonios Chariton (Oct 02)
- Re: IPv6 Thought Experiment Matt Harris (Oct 02)
- Re: IPv6 Thought Experiment John Levine (Oct 02)
- Re: IPv6 Thought Experiment Antonios Chariton (Oct 02)
- Re: IPv6 Thought Experiment Stephen Satchell (Oct 02)
- Re: IPv6 Thought Experiment Nick Hilliard (Oct 02)
- Re: IPv6 Thought Experiment Daniel Seagraves (Oct 02)
- Re: IPv6 Thought Experiment Justin Streiner (Oct 02)
- Re: IPv6 Thought Experiment Owen DeLong (Oct 02)
- Re: IPv6 Thought Experiment Martin Hannigan (Oct 02)
- Re: IPv6 Thought Experiment William Herrin (Oct 02)
- Re: IPv6 Thought Experiment Scott Weeks (Oct 02)