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Internet Accounting for 4.7% of U.S. Economy

• Comment posted Mar 20, 2012 3:51 pm PDT — by Richard Donaldson
  I would suggest that this is actually on the low side as it may only contain "transactions" online with respect to selling or buying something, ala Amazon, and not all the Internet Infrastructure contribution - datacenters, hosting, cloud, etc

Borders, In Bankruptcy, Aims To Sell 65,536 IPv4 Addresses at $12/Address

• Comment posted Dec 06, 2011 7:58 pm PST — by Richard Donaldson
  Besides the obvious cost associated with buying IPv4 address space - have you encountered anything else that is the big #2 costs of operating a legacy network? (e.g., connection issues as a result of Carrier Grade NAT, etc) I've taken…

• Comment posted Dec 06, 2011 7:25 pm PST — by Richard Donaldson
  Absolutely agreed with verification via RIR policies (and RIR db integrity) - there will be fraud I am sure (how much is hard to tell) and what ARIN has in place will allow for transactional integrity and should be followed…

• Comment posted Dec 06, 2011 7:03 pm PST — by Richard Donaldson
  I further suggest that this "public" trade will only hasten v4's total exhaustion - I have not idea who Cerner is (never heard of them till now) and a great follow up would be to hear why they thought they…

Domain Names Without Dots

• Comment posted Jun 21, 2011 5:15 pm PDT — by Richard Donaldson
  While understanding your points on current infrastructure limitations with respect to the new .everything and name resolution, I am wondering if this will trigger yet further expansion of internet infrastructure such that it will concurrently stimulate more IPv6 adoption?  For…

World First: Merger of a Telco and a Power Company

• Comment posted Jun 16, 2011 5:59 pm PDT — by Richard Donaldson
  Paul: Fantastic recap of what should become the norm vis-a-vis converged Utilities thereby allowing for all things that are delivered via a wire - Power, Voice, Video, Internet - to be centrally managed and realized economy of scale benefits.  While…

RFC 1918 Address Space: Why It Was Needed then and How It Will Change in IPv6!

• Comment posted Jun 13, 2011 6:45 pm PDT — by Richard Donaldson
  Mel: You are correct - I should have been more explicit in my explanation.  I've found that one of the biggest hurdles in IPv6 adoption is simply getting rid of IPv4 mind-sets, so while you are absolutely correct, I was…

Using Domain Filtering To Effect IP Address Filtering

• Comment posted Jun 09, 2011 4:19 pm PDT — by Richard Donaldson
  Paul - how is your view further substantiated (or not) in an IPv6 world where IPs are nearly limitless?  What changes do you foresee with respect to spam filtering in this world?