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Re: legacy /8
From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 16:53:39 -0700
On Apr 2, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote:
On 4/2/10 3:01 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, JeroenI've got a rather stupidly simple and straightforward plan, since we're all throwing ideas out. Take back all the IP space from China and give them a single /20 and tell them to make do. They're already behind a great firewall, so they should have no problem using NAT with their citizens for easier restricting of freedoms, and for the actual services they need to run, they can assign a limited amount of static IP addresses for servers, and the rest NAT as well, and port forward for specific services.
Probably not the biggest flaw in this plan, but: Total number of RFC-1918 addresses: 18+ million. Population of China: More than 1.325 billion. I'll leave the other political aspects to others, but, the math simply doesn't work. Owen
Current thread:
- Re: legacy /8, (continued)
- Re: legacy /8 Steven Bellovin (Apr 03)
- RE: legacy /8 George Bonser (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 Randy Bush (Apr 02)
- Re: legacy /8 Jim Burwell (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 Bill Bogstad (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 Dan White (Apr 02)
- Re: legacy /8 Brielle Bruns (Apr 02)
- Re: legacy /8 David Conrad (Apr 02)
- Re: legacy /8 Brielle Bruns (Apr 02)
- Re: legacy /8 Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 02)
- Re: legacy /8 David Conrad (Apr 02)
- Re: legacy /8 Owen DeLong (Apr 03)