Re: Class D addresses? was: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public

On 20/11/2021 19:59, Michael Thomas wrote:

but starving the beast doesn't have a great track record. We are talking about 20% of the address space that's being wasted so it's not nothing.

Starving the beast is actively working to make IPv4 cost-prohibitive. I only wish those whom Jay refers to, had fewer addresses to buy & sell - definitely not more. There are ~4.3B addresses in the entire 32-bit IPv4 space, and there are ~4.3B /64s in every IPv6 /32. The D/E IPv4 space would make speculators rich, nothing else of note. -- Tom