[ih] History of the Economics of the Internet?

[Greg Skinner]

On Aug 4, 2026, at 5:40 PM, Scott Bradner <sob at sobco.com> wrote:
> 
> the BOF came out of the observation that addresses (IPb4 anyway) were going
> to be "sold" and the question was - can addresses be sold while still trying
> to not explode the routing table
> 
> it was a fun BOF (physical tokens distributed to the attendees (tossed that is) 
> with the aim to collect them into collections)
> 
> Scott  (AD for that BOF)
> 

For more piara discussion, see the following:

piara mailing list archives from 1996-1998 hosted at APNIC <https://web.archive.org/web/20250119205642/http://submit.apnic.net/apnic/mailing-lists/piara/> (via the Internet Archive)
Market-based address allocation NANOG thread from 2003 <https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/test@lists.nanog.org/thread/UL6O3QI6KVJVDR5A672VGFHLKRKRJA6F/#LGHA3B2I5RTZDPVQXXRY3AV2CROH3TBE>

--gregbo