Pricing and efficiency in the market for IP addresses

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Pricing and efficiency in the market for IP addresses

We consider market rules for the transfer of IP addresses, numeric identifiers required by all computers connected to the Internet. Excessive fragmentation of IP address blocks causes growth in the Internet's routing table, which is socially costly, so an IP address market should discourage subdividing IP address blocks more than necessary. Yet IP address transfer rules also need to facilitate purchase by the networks that need the addresses most, from the networks who value them least. We propose a market rule that avoids excessive fragmentation while almost achieving social efficiency, and we argue that implementation of this rule is feasible despite the limited powers of central authorities. We also offer a framework for the price trajectory of IPv4 addresses. In a world with- out uncertainty, the unit price of IPv4 is constant before the first time when all blocks of IPv4 addresses are in use and decreasing after that time. With uncertainty, the price before that time is a martingale, and the price trajectory afterwards is a supermartingale.

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English
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12

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Pricing and efficiency in the market for IP addresses
2014, Harvard Business School
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Cover of: Pricing and efficiency in the market for IP addresses
Pricing and efficiency in the market for IP addresses
2013, Harvard Business School
in English - Revised edition
Cover of: Pricing and efficiency in the market for IP addresses
Pricing and efficiency in the market for IP addresses
2012, Harvard Business School
in English - Revised edition
Cover of: Pricing and efficiency in the market for IP addresses
Pricing and efficiency in the market for IP addresses
2011, Harvard Business School
in English

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"September 2011" -- Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Working paper / Harvard Business School -- 12-020, Working paper (Harvard Business School) -- 12-020

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12 p.
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12

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OL53501160M
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758550298

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We consider market rules for transferring IP addresses, numeric identifiers required by all computers connected to the Internet. Transfers usefully move resources from lowest to highest-valuation networks, but transfers tend to cause socially costly growth in the Internet's routing table. We propose a market rule that avoids excessive trading and comes close to achieving social efficiency. We argue that this rule is feasible despite the limited powers of central authorities. We also offer a framework for reasoning about future prices of IP addresses, then explore the role of rentals in sharing information about the value of IP address and assuring allocative efficiency.

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