On Sep 13, 2006, at 1:37 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since IP addresses are tightly tied to the network
architecture, how can they ever be liquid?
How are PI addresses tightly tied to network architecture?
What percentage of the total IPv4 address space is PI?
Good question. Perhaps someon
> Erm, Uranium *is* a commodity. Last week's spot price was
> $52 a pound for U3O8. It's a small market in terms of numbers
> of players but it's still an open market in the economic sense.
> 102 million pounds were traded in 2004. Hedge funds are players
> in the uranium market (source: www.uxc.c
> > Since IP addresses are tightly tied to the network
> > architecture, how can they ever be liquid?
>
> How are PI addresses tightly tied to network architecture?
What percentage of the total IPv4 address
space is PI? If non-PI addresses are not
property then how do PI addresses gain that
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On 12 Sep 2006, at 10:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For example, let's compare gold and uranium. Both metals
are very valuable. Gold can be bought and sold at any
time on an open market. It is a commodity. But uranium is
not as liquid. There are few buyers and sellers. Trades
happen too infreq
Michael,
On Sep 12, 2006, at 2:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since IP addresses are tightly tied to the network
architecture, how can they ever be liquid?
How are PI addresses tightly tied to network architecture?
Rgds,
-drc
> You make an incorrect assumption - that IP addresses are currently free
> (they are not, in either money or time) and that commoditizing them will
> increase their cost (there is significant evidence it will not).
You seem to think that commoditizing IP addresses will
reduce their cost. Commo
