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Apple would just pay the tab. So would Google. It wouldn't change anything. If you're large enough to get allocations that huge, you're large enough to afford

Apple would just pay the tab. So would Google. It wouldn't change anything. If you're large enough to get allocations that huge, you're large enough to afford it. Why is Apple a "wastrel" when it's building gigantic datacenters all over the place, yet MIT, who has an equal sized allocation for a university, is somehow fine? It's not in Apple's interest to yield the block unless there's industry consensus and other companies and organizations with similar allocations are doing the same.

Natsu 11y ago
At $1 per IP, given that Apple has a /8, that'd be almost $17M. They could probably cut quite a bit of usage if they wanted to. The real problem is that this doesn't make sense: we don't WANT IPv4 to persist. The sooner we all go to IPv6, the better. Ideally, usage will gradually wane until only obsolete items even use IPv4, then a cutoff date will come from major ISPs and such cutting off IPv4 service and we'll finally pass the last hurdle. At least, one might hope so.
- vacri 11y ago
  $17M/year to avoid having to re-architect all the internal networking at a trillion-dollar company? Easier to just pay it, really.
  - astrodust 11y ago
    They probably pay more than $17M a year on domain registrations. Just the cost of doing business.
jwatte 11y ago
"Like" Apple. All single company /8 are wasteful. And the holders didn't get the /8 in modern times "because they are huge" they got them in ancient times because historical reasons. The fact that we've treated those allocations as sacrosanct means that we're stupid political people, not engineers. (What else is new? :-)