On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:
Bwana PS,
Glad you are hearing it from the source.
The source??? Veri$ign (as a single private corporation) has FAR too much influence in Internet governance as far as i am concerned Good thing they have nothing to do with the root of IP addresses, that is the IANA.
There is indeed a huge possibility (theory again?) of a black market for IPv4 resources emerging as the depletion becomes a reality (over the next couple of months in developed economies).
The RIR communities have worked very hard to make them "white" or "gray" markets.
@McTim,
True, AfriNIC is constrained by its policies NOT to dish out their IPv4 resources to markets outside Africa - BUT there exists some huge "legacy" IPv4 space/resources in Africa which I think can easily find themselves in this black market (that Verisign is speculating on).
The only HUGE v4 legacy block that was allocated to an African org was returned (with many thanks) to AfriNIC a few years ago by TENET. There are some Class B's held by African orgs, but these are middling size, and fairly few and far between. I only know one legacy holder in Africa that is hoping to monetise his legacy blocks of IP resources. -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel