Need Base and Pre-Approval — The RIR Veto over IPv4 Transfers
Should an operator need its recordkeeper’s permission to invest?
The Notes of Lu Heng
Who decides the future of the Internet?
Who gave the Internet’s recordkeepers the power to govern it? These Notes follow that question from everyday analogies to a different design for the network.
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IP addresses, markets and the difference between owning and asking permission.
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The Poverty Penalty: How the RIR Model Taxes the Poor While Calling It Equality
Was the registry system ever built to equalise scarcity between rich and poor?
On Why Saying IPv4 Commercialization Harms Poorer Countries Gets the Structure Wrong
Does a need-based system protect poorer countries, or formalise their disadvantage?
On Regional Internet Registries’ Thick Governance Turns Uniqueness into Double Extraction
What does uniqueness actually require, and what has been built on top of it?
On Why the Present Registry Model Becomes Impossible Once IPv4 Becomes a Real Asset
Can a clerical liability shell govern an asset class worth trillions?
On the Nature of IP Addresses and the Inevitability of Structural Change
What is an IP address, and why does the ledger’s keeper matter less than the ledger?
On the Manufactured Narrative of IPv4 Scarcity
Is IPv4 scarce if its price barely registers in the cost of running a server?
On Scarcity Is Not Hoarding: Why IPv4 Assetization Strengthens, Not Harms, Connectivity
Does treating IPv4 as an asset raise the price of connectivity?
On Why RIR Enforcement Creep Is the Silent Killer of IPv4 Liquidity — and Why It Must Be Stopped
How do auditing and pre-approval turn a market into a ration queue?
On IPv6 Propaganda, IPv4 Scarcity, and a Simple Command: Stop Apologizing and Compound the Capital You Already Own
Why did twenty years of IPv6 promotion not replace IPv4 in the real economy?
On Wealth, Scarcity, and Why This “IP Is Capital” Moment Matters
Why does the author call himself a capitalist, and what did denied scarcity cost the industry?
Why IPv4 Can Be Worth $60 Trillion
What happens to IPv4’s value once it is priced like other assets that unlock revenue?
The claim that IPv4 could reach a total value of $60 trillion is not rhetorical. It follows from basic asset economics once IPv4 is treated for what it actually is: a scarce, irreplaceable service-enabling asset.