points by BirdieNZ 7 hours ago | 0 comments
From a Georgist perspective, IPv4 is actually a form of land (it's a finite "natural resource", although that's not quite proper), and you could make a case for "land rent" being taxed on the addresses. This is the same as radio broadcast frequencies, web addresses, actual land, un-mined gold/oil/coal/whatever, and other finite natural resources that create monopolistic tendencies.
It's closer to radiofrequencies I think, these are heavily regulated.
However radiofrequencies are purely natural resources, while IPv4 have a specific copyrightable spec design, domains have trademarkable TLDs