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• fanf2 16y ago
  It would be foolish to do it now when IP addresses are still available for a fairly modest fee. If you wait a year for the RIR free pools to empty then IP address trading could well become big business.
• qntm 16y ago
  Organisations who have been assigned /8s were almost uniformly assigned them very early in the internet's lifespan. That marks out those organisations as those with a vested interest in the internet-- that is, science and technology organisations. In the 15 years that have passed since then, there's an excellent chance that they'll have expanded to internally allocate or at least earmark all the IP space available to them. Freeing up even half of the block would probably require a huge amount of internal reconfiguration and only buy the IPv4 internet another few weeks at most. Of course, if it could turn some profit, that makes it more likely.
  • kree10 16y ago
    I'm mainly thinking of companies like Eli Lilly or Ford. How much of their public /8 space are they really using? If/when the ipv4 crisis happens, yes, it should be worth their while to redo their networks to sell off a /8. Even with some of the tech companies with /8s like HP (who has two, since they own DEC) or Apple, it probably will (but not yet) make economic sense to sell.