I also just got a fresh box of popcorn. I will sit by and wait for Jeroen to do a business analysis and tell me the return on investment. (Assuming that he can find any legal grounds for demanding return of legacy /8 allocations.) All of the analysis results I have seen mention figuratively beating oneself [..painfully..] with combat boots. Running out of IP addresses is not a soon realized scenario for IPv6. If an organization runs out of IP addresses, the difficulty is with top management, not the network or address space. I think this is a many-iterated discussion, also know by some as a "rathole". On Apr 2, 2010, at 5:01 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
James R. Cutler james.cutler@consultant.com