Doug Barton wrote:
On 7/15/15 10:24 AM, Joe Maimon wrote:
I suspect a 16 /8 right about now would be very welcome for everybody other then the ipv6 adherents.
Globally we were burning through about a /8 every month or two in "the good old days." So in the best case scenario we'd get 32 more months of easy to get IPv4, but at an overwhelming cost to re-implement every network stack.
This option was considered back in the early 2000's when I was still involved in the discussion, and rejected as impractical.
Removing experimental status does not equate with the burden of making it equivalent use to the rest of the address space. How about the ARIN burn rate post IANA runout? How long does 16 /8 last then? What would be wrong with removing experimental status and allowing one of the /8 to be used for low barrier to /16 assignment to any party demonstrating a willingness to coax usability of the space? Yes, any such effort has to run the gauntlet of IETF/IANA/RIR policy. CGN /10 managed. This could too, if all the naysayers would just step out of the way.