On Apr 2, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote:
On 4/2/10 3:01 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote:
I am curious. Once we're nearing exhausting all IPv4 space will there ever come a time to ask/demand/force returning all these legacy /8 allocations? I think I understand the difficulty in that, but then running out of IPs is also a difficult issue. :-)
For some reason I sooner see all IPv4 space being exhausted than IPv6 being actually implemented globally.
Greetings, Jeroen
I've got a rather stupidly simple and straightforward plan, since we're all throwing ideas out.
Take back all the IP space from China and give them a single /20 and tell them to make do. They're already behind a great firewall, so they should have no problem using NAT with their citizens for easier restricting of freedoms, and for the actual services they need to run, they can assign a limited amount of static IP addresses for servers, and the rest NAT as well, and port forward for specific services.
Probably not the biggest flaw in this plan, but: Total number of RFC-1918 addresses: 18+ million. Population of China: More than 1.325 billion. I'll leave the other political aspects to others, but, the math simply doesn't work. Owen