[Irtf-rr] Just an idea for a self organiziong IPv6 address space network

[Bengt Ahlgren]

Xiaowei Yang <yxw@cordelia.lcs.mit.edu> writes:

[...]

> As an example, if an global address prefix costs a significant amount
> of fortune, perhaps many small networks / local ISPs are willing to
> take address blocks from their providers. If becoming a visible entry
> in the global BGP table costs money, perhaps many networks would want
> to be aggregated into their providers' entries.
> 
> By this allocation, ISPs can still operate if the rest of the Internet
> collapses, because dynamic failures do not terminate the business
> relationships and do not change the address blocks a domain owns.
> 
> We do not need algorithms to determine which ASes are the top level
> ones. Whichever affords the money can buy a global unique address
> prefix.

[...]

This sounds nice in theory, but who is going to "sell" the address
blocks?  How do you design this market so that the market can decide
the proper price?  To me it sounds similar to the auctions of 3G
licenses in many European countries, which must be regarded as
fiascos.

Cheers,

Bengt