Re: trying to reconcile two threads

["John Stracke" <jstracke at incentivesystems.com>]

>It seems to me that these two can't both be true. IP Addresses cannot at 
>once be scarce enough to charge for and non-scarce enough that scarcity 
is 
>a non-issue.

I don't think anybody's actually saying that addresses aren't scarce; 
they're saying that NAT solves the scarcity problem.

Meanwhile, cable companies aren't actually worried about charging per 
address; their (perceived) problem is unauthorized users, and they're 
using addresses as a proxy for users.

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