Financial incentives for route aggregation and efficient address utilization in the Internet
Coordinating the Internet
IPv4 address allocation and the BGP routing table evolution
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Controlling the growth of internet routing tables through market mechanisms
Proceedings of the Re-Architecting the Internet Workshop
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This paper links the analysis of IP address policy to the established vocabulary and concepts of institutional economics. Internet addressing and routing are usually discussed in technical terms, yet embedded in this highly technical discourse are a number of critical economic concepts, such as scarcity, externalities, common pool resources, tragedy of the commons, and conflict over the distribution of costs. To solve these problems, governance institutions native to the Internet have evolved. Yet despite the centrality of addressing and routing to Internet governance, there is very little research literature that bridges economic, institutional and technical discussions of IP addressing and routing. This paper connects the techno-economic discussion to analysis of institutions and governance arrangements.