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So they knew that IPv4 address space is nearing exhaustion, and they that they are using only 2 mln out of 16 mln addresses yet they decided to wait until now?
by 6d6b73 10y ago
So they knew that IPv4 address space is nearing exhaustion, and they that they are using only 2 mln out of 16 mln addresses yet they decided to wait until now? And instead of returning the addresses (like Stanford did) they want to sell them?
- notacoward 10y agoSort of reflects on MIT's business school (Sloan) vs. Stanford's, I'd say.
- Tarrosion 10y agoWhy business schools rather than institutes as a whole, bureaucratic structure, beliefs of particular powerful people on campus, etc.? I'm not sure what this comparison has to do with Sloan and GSB.
- notacoward 10y agoMIT found a way to monetize something that Stanford had given away for free. Not saying it's right, but it's a business decision. Also, it's a joke. People seem to be taking it rather seriously, which says more about their levels of (in)security than anything.
- ghaff 10y agoWhy not sell them? - It's not clear to me who benefits from just giving IP addresses back to ARIN. I guess it means everyone (presumably mostly telcos and cloud providers) get IP addresses a little bit cheaper. - I'm not sure why MIT is under some special obligation to give back their old, pre-ARIN addresses that they got in the early days of the Internet relative to the variety of corporations who still own the blocks from the same regime including Halliburton for example.