Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast

[William Herrin <bill () herrin us>]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 10:32 AM John Curran <jcurran () istaff org> wrote:
> There’s this organization called the Internet Engineering Task Force that has been working hard to establish 
> long-term financial independence and stability via the IETF Endowment project <https://www.ietf.org/endowment/> –
>
> Several of the Internet community organizations have made substantial contributions to this goal, but much more will 
> be needed if the IETF is to achieve long-term funding stability.  Speaking entirely in my own personal capacity, I 
> believe that long-term financial stability of the IETF is an extremely worthwhile goal for all of us to support and – 
> to the extent that somehow changes to the IPv4 address specification result in a financial upside – I believe that 
> the IETF Endowment would be a very appropriate beneficiary.

Hi John,

That has some clever layers of subtlety to it. Instead of the IETF
having to decide when the IPv4 changes have a wide enough deployment
to release the addresses for use, they can simply make them available
for sale with proceeds to the endowment. When would-be buyers decide
they're good enough they'll be bought and used.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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