i'm slightly worried about feeding trolls here but it's sunday here. HRH Sven Olaf Prinz von CyberBunker-Kamphuis MP <sven@cyberbunker.com> writes:
ever heard of the concept "open market"
ipv4 address space delegations will just move from the rirs to places like ebay, problem solved.
most of it is unused anyway (milnet, amateur radio ranges, etc)
the human, as a species in the animal kingdom, is known to be the kind of animal who fouls its own nest and overruns its habitat. the idea of a tipping point, whether it be for CO2 in the atmosphere or polar ice shelves or explosively deaggregated IPv4 routing tables, does not occur in the minds of individual decision makers. instead it's left to us "chicken little" types, and the only way the individual decision makers ever make their decisions on the basis of tipping points is if some kind of "governance" makes them do so. -- Paul Vixie