How much runway would a single /8 give us?  Is it worth the headache to gain a single /8 ?

If we’re going to do something that Majorly Breaks the Internet(tm), why not talk about the 240/4 space instead?  

<economics>We can’t fight address exhaustion on the supply side.  The only way to fix IPv4 exhaustion is by shifting the demand curve inward and that is through IPV6 and aggressive reclamation of IPv4 space.<economics />

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On Nov 17, 2021, at 3:29 PM, Jay R. Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:

This seems like a really bad idea to me; am I really the only one who noticed?

https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-schoen-intarea-unicast-127-00.html

That's over a week old and I don't see 3000 comments on it, so maybe it's just
me.  So many things are just me.

[ Hat tip to Lauren Weinstein, whom I stole it from ]

Cheers,
-- jra

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