On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 17:05:52 -0500 Daniel Golding <dgolding@burtongroup.com> wrote:
ARIN (and/or RIPE, APNIC) should really use a bit of their budget surplus to provide a few grants to economics professors who are experts in commodity market issues. As engineers, we grope in the dark concerning fairly well established scientific principles we are unfamiliar with. Its like reinventing the wheel. :(
For a view by some computer scientists, see: Yakov Rekhter, Paul Resnick, and Steven M. Bellovin, "Financial Incentives for Route Aggregation and Efficient Address Utilization in the Internet," in Proceedings of Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Solomons, MD..Also in Brian Kahin and James H. Keller, eds., Coordinating the Internet, MIT Press, 1997 http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/piara/index.html We even held a BoF at an IETF, long ago. The enthusiasm was, shall we say, underwhelming.