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Re: misunderstanding scale (was: Ipv4 end, its fake.)


From: William Herrin <bill () herrin us>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 15:36:06 -0400

On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Justin M. Streiner
<streiner () cluebyfour org> wrote:
On Sat, 22 Mar 2014, William Herrin wrote:
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Justin M. Streiner
<streiner () cluebyfour org> wrote:

All of these 'Hail Mary' options for 'saving' IPv4 really are pointless.


IPv4 is like the U.S. Penny. It'll be useless long before it goes
away. And right now it's far from useless.

Interesting analogy, but it misses the larger point.  The larger point is
that the ongoing effort to squeeze more mileage out of IPv4 will soon [1]
outweigh the mileage we (collectively) get out of it.

Hi Justin,

That's what I hear. Interesting thing though: it hasn't happened yet.
IANA ran out of /8's and it didn't happen. The RIRs dropped to
high-conservation mode on their final allocations and it didn't
happen. How could that be?

In completely unrelated news, placard-bearing lunatics on the streets
of New York City report that The End Is Nigh... for most of the last
century.

Regards,
Bill Herrin



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