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No need to treat them as property. Just allocate to the highest bidder would have the same effect no? With the added benefit that the revenue from that could g
by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
No need to treat them as property. Just allocate to the highest bidder would have the same effect no?
With the added benefit that the revenue from that could go to something fair, like a public dividend, rather than to rent seekers
- lmm 3y ago> No need to treat them as property. Just allocate to the highest bidder would have the same effect no? The problem is that companies who have an adequate chunk of IPv4 addresses have no reason or incentive to bother with IPv6. So unless you're going to yank existing alloctaions - which comes with massive problems - I think letting them trade on the open market is the least bad option.