[sprachspiel]

I wonder how long it will take until there is a market for IP addresses. I suspect once such a market is in place IPv6 will not see widespread adoption, since most IPv4 addresses are not really used.

[wmf]

The market is here: https://www.arin.net/resources/transfer_listing/index.html

[clistctrl]

do you know if goldman sachs or some other financial entity has created an investment vehicle that I can use to speculate in the market with?

[wmf]

I suspect you're joking, but the old timers really don't like IP speculation. It took them years to agree on the current pseudo-market because they had to figure out how to keep out speculators.

[azernik]

At which point the routing properties of IP will be destroyed (all addresses in a given /16 or /24 routing through the same link helps router performance a lot). I think at that point you'll get a real ISP push to switch to IPv6