My point is that the most important resources (routing table slots) are still allocated via informal central planning in your proposed scheme. And that isn't

My point is that the most important resources (routing table slots) are still allocated via informal central planning in your proposed scheme. And that isn't unreasonable; usually if you want a functional market, you need /something/ dealing with the externalities. In the general case, sure, I like markets, too. It's just that markets deal very poorly with externalities, and I want to make the point that the way most people want to set up a market for IPs, routing table slots are externalities. There is currently a process for selling IP addresses: https://www.arin.net/resources/transfers/index.html https://www.arin.net/resources/transfers/index.html My understanding is that you give the previous owner enough money to make them happy, then you satisfy the requirements that you would have had to satisfy to get ARIN to give you the resources if you were requesting said resources from ARIN directly.