lør, 20 11 2021 kl. 08:31 -0800, skrev Leo Vegoda: > Yes, but there's a distinct difference between not rushing to remove > RFC 1918 address space from most home and office networks and putting > lots of effort into trying to make some other, previously reserved, > IPv4 space reliable enough that it can be uniquely registered to > various network operators.
So far, similar efforts have made it possible to use 1.x and 192.not- 168.x and lots of other networks that were considered too "dirty" to use reliably. Current pricing of IPv4 is above $40USD per address, so freeing another /8 has a value of hundreds of millions of USD. It is great to take the approach of "just use IPv6", when I bet that every one of us on this list have at least one IPv4 address per connection. A onetime cost of $40 is not scary for us, and address scarcity is good for the value of the IP space owned by the ISPs and other organizations that are our employers. /Benny
