-----Original Message----- From: Brandon Ross [mailto:bross@sockeye.com] Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 1:51 PM To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Independent space from ARIN

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Overbuilding office space in San Francisco doesn't *usually* cause real estate issues in Tokyo.

I must be missing your point because I don't see how that's relevant. Think of the 69/8 space as being out in the middle of nowhere (due to the bogon filters). It's cheap land but it comes with it's problems. If you invest in it, you can increase it's value, if you don't want to, buy the more expensive downtown property.

And everything goes the way of the domain market. You mistype a .3 as a .4 and end up at some porn site! Or worse yet, Silicon Valley startups are building business models around peddling vanity IPs such as 69.69.69.69 and 4.2.2.4 on eBay. --- Michael Damm, MIS Department, Irwin Research & Development V: 509.457.5080 x298 F: 509.577.0301 E: miked@irwinresearch.com