On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Walubengo J
<jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:
Bwana PS,
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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).
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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).
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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.