On Jun 19, 2026, at 12:19 PM, Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi> wrote:
On Fri, 19 Jun 2026 at 11:32, David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> wrote:
"Big tech shops” buying up all the addresses would drive the asset value up, increasing the likelihood the beancounters will see incentives to migrate. It is an irrelevant cost to them. There is more value to them that competitors cannot have them. Hence antitrust.
I was speaking of SMBs. They might (historically were, in my experience) be interested in the asset sale, particularly as they moved to the cloud/SAAS and defensively reduced their public Internet exposure.
Free market won't fix the problem we created.
I have some skepticism that a “turn off IPv4 day” mandate from (some) network operators will change things significantly, but I’m frequently wrong. Regards, -drc