Much ado about nothing. There have been lots of IP hoarding over there years, most major carriers have tens, if not hundreds of thousands of unassigned IPs. And this will finally push the refinement of IPv6 to the end user. It's probably a blessing in disguise.
Allocated != In Use
What's the point of hoarding IP's?Originally Posted by W4GPL
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The nation we live in is the nation we have built by design, each successive generation raising the wall of tyranny a little higher. - Chris Griffin
Status symbol... I mean, AMPRNet has an entire Class C block (44.0.0.0-44.254.254.254).
It's been known for many years now that we'd eventually run out of addresses. It only made sense to take what they could get, not what they needed. The carriers knew IP addresses would be a hot commodity when they finally did run out. Greed, mostly.
And what..Google et.al are going to run a live one day IPv6 test in June.
Yeah...I'm a furry...Deal with it!
Ayep... I get to be involved in that :)
Big deal.
Really. This is nothing new. It's been delayed for about 5 - 10 years due to wiser allocation of resources, and unused IP blocks being turned in and recycled, but this was coming.
It just means that IPv6 will finally start getting rolled out to the masses.
BTW, the Wall Street Journal also had an article on this yesterday. First page of Section "B". Again, nothing new.
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I thought that was a Class A block.
“Nobody is going to feel sorry for us. 90% of the people don’t care, the other 10% are glad it happened.” — Clint Hurdle, 2019
BAN THE DH!
Fudd's First Law of Opposition: If you push something hard enough, it WILL fall down.
Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law: It goes in, it must go out.
"The 2020 election wasn't stolen, and speaking the truth is only a crime in countries ruled by tyrants" - Liz Cheney
“Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Trump golfed.” — Bernie Sanders
Yes, had my classes reversed. Class A (Class C would be 44.0.0.255) :)
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