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Re: WKBI #586, Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public


From: Steven Bakker <steven.bakker () ams-ix net>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 13:43:14 +0000

On Thu, 2021-11-18 at 10:51 +0000, Nick Hilliard wrote:
The ask is to update every ip stack in the world (including
validation, 
equipment retirement, reconfiguration, etc) and the gain is 4 weeks
of 
extra ip address space in terms of estimated consumption.

(Not to mention the static 127.in-addr.arpa zone that pretty much every
resolver has configured by default these days.)

The burn rate is the best argument I've seen against the idea so far.

-- Steven

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