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It's worth pointing out that this is funded by AMPRNet, the people who sold 44.192.0.0/10 to Amazon a few years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=204776
by tim-- 6y ago
It's worth pointing out that this is funded by AMPRNet, the people who sold 44.192.0.0/10 to Amazon a few years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20477670 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20477670)
- wmf 6y agoDid we ever find out what the price was?
- pabs3 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPRNet#Block_size https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPRNet#Block_size
- jrochkind1 6y agoI guess this is what they're doing with some of the money? The OP announcement doesn't say the amount of funding.
- wmf 6y ago$250K from https://www.ampr.org/grants/ https://www.ampr.org/grants/ (there are two line items)
- mimi89999 6y agoWas it unreadable? Sometime ago everybody believed that after the IPv4 exhaustion everybody will quickly switch to IPv6. It was quite reasonable to sell them while they were still worth something if they believed that they will be worthless is several years. Sadly, there was no big switch to IPv6 and double NAT is the thing now.
- p1mrx 6y ago~0% to ~30% in 10 years isn't perfect, but it's a pretty big switch: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html