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So they're paying for the rights for other people to access their systems via a set of numbers. And how is that not making arbitrary numbers artificially scarc

So they're paying for the rights for other people to access their systems via a set of numbers. And how is that not making arbitrary numbers artificially scarce and collecting payment for them? IPV6 really can't come soon enough.

tptacek 15y ago
FIB sizes in core routers (operated at great expense by people you do not pay) are not an artificial scarcity.
wmf 15y ago
IPv4 was designed in the early 1980s. Are you saying Cerf et al. made IP addresses only 32 bits so they could cash in 30 years later? Or are you saying that almost all ISPs are delaying IPv6 so they can cash in (fairly small amounts of money) on IPv4 addresses?
- wavephorm 15y ago
  I guess I'm making a more broad statement that IP addresses are rare when, once we migrate to IPV6, they will be free, so we should migrate asap.
  - tptacek 15y ago
    They won't be free. They're not just numbers.