On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 08:31:06PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
You MIGHT have paid some other organization for the privilege of transferring part or all of their registration rights to you.
But in no case did you pay for the addresses themselves unless you are silly enough to think that a person can own an integer.
IPv6 missed a great chance of doing away with all the central waterfall trickle-down space distribution. Luckily, /64 looks like large enough to bypass that by offering address space sufficiently large while co-existable with legacy addressing and routing. I hope eventually somebody will start tinkering with mesh radios which also have GPS onboard (as most smartphones and tablets do). 24 + 24 + 16 bits are just enough to represent a decent-resolution WGS84 position fix. Plus, GPS gives you a pretty accurate clock.