17 Feb
2011
17 Feb
'11
7:39 a.m.
On 11 feb 2011, at 17:51, William Herrin wrote:
We can't backport ULA into IPv4 private addressing; there aren't enough addresses for the math to work. So we either make such folks jump through all kinds of hoops to get their networks to function, or we assign addresses that could otherwise be used on the big-I Internet.
Not that it matters because it's too late now and it would only give us a few more months, but: Does the US government really need more than 150 million addresses, of which about half are not publically routed? Non-publically routed addresses can be reused by others as long as the stuff both users connect to doesn't overlap.