Personally I'd rather hear from the RIRs regarding the value or not of making more IPv4 space such as 240/4 available. They're on the front lines of this. I think sometimes what we're manipulating in these debates is the time factor: Someone with a worthy, immediate, urgent need versus some distant horizon which might be preferable in the big picture but is demanding possibly unreasonable sacrifices of some in the short term. I don't believe we are pondering making this IPv4 space available and then returning to the 1980s/1990s relative free-for-all. This all might be more interesting if driven by consideration of those needs. On March 13, 2022 at 13:54 johnl@iecc.com (John Levine) wrote:
It appears that Joe Maimon <jmaimon@jmaimon.com> said:
Saku Ytti wrote:
What if many/most large CDN, cloud, tier1 would commonly announce a plan to drop all IPv4 at their edge 20 years from now? How would that change our work? What would we stop doing and what would we start doing?
I cant see how it would change or do anything IPv6-related for myself for at least 19 years. And I suspect most others would fall somewhere between that and never.
Yet the four largest cable networks and all of the mobile networks in the US have had full IPv6 support for years as do AWS, Google, Azure, Digital Ocean, Linode, and many other hosting providers.
Could you explain what "most" means where you are?
R's, John
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