On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 2:22 AM Per Bilse <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm saying that address space is a limited resource, and as such it cannot be > expected to be free. Cheap, maybe, but one way or another it will always > cost something; even staking a free claim isn't free. This is a general > principle that applies universally, and I recall Daniel's note as a slightly > tongue-in-cheek, gentle reminder that reality prevails, even in the Internet.
The address space itself is free. That's why you can use as many probabilistically unique /48s in fd00::/8 - you just can't register them. You're paying for the registration, the DNS, and a bunch of other services, like RIPE meetings, that are associated with the registration.
