Personally I'd rather hear from the RIRs regarding the value or not of
making more IPv4 space such as 240/4 available. They're on the front
lines of this.
I think sometimes what we're manipulating in these debates is the time
factor: Someone with a worthy, immediate, urgent need versus some
distant horizon which might be preferable in the big picture but is
demanding possibly unreasonable sacrifices of some in the short term.
I don't believe we are pondering making this IPv4 space available and
then returning to the 1980s/1990s relative free-for-all.
This all might be more interesting if driven by consideration of those
needs.
On March 13, 2022 at 13:54 jo...@iecc.com (John Levine) wrote:
> It appears that Joe Maimon <jmai...@jmaimon.com> said:
> >Saku Ytti wrote:
> >> What if many/most large CDN, cloud, tier1 would commonly announce a
> >> plan to drop all IPv4 at their edge 20 years from now? How would that
> >> change our work? What would we stop doing and what would we start doing?
> >
> >I cant see how it would change or do anything IPv6-related for myself
> >for at least 19 years. And I suspect most others would fall somewhere
> >between that and never.
>
> Yet the four largest cable networks and all of the mobile networks in the
> US have had full IPv6 support for years as do AWS, Google, Azure, Digital
> Ocean, Linode, and many other hosting providers.
>
> Could you explain what "most" means where you are?
>
> R's,
> John
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