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The precise numbers are 4,194,304 * $26.13 = $109,597,164 - broker fee of $545,260 = $109,051,904 net.

by drmpeg 6y ago

zaroth 6y ago
So that makes the current IPv4 address space total market cap ~$112 billion.
- aidenn0 6y ago
  There are roughly 20 class 8s worth of special addresses, which reduces that by $10 billion or so.
  - Ekaros 6y ago
    I wish I could sell parts of my 127/8...
    - metalliqaz 6y ago
      it's not yours, it's mine!
  - schoen 6y ago
    I'm working on a project with John Gilmore to make those special addresses usable. https://github.com/schoen/unicast-extensions https://github.com/schoen/unicast-extensions (note that most of the content in this repository was written by Dave Taht, who was running this project before; he got patches merged in the mainline Linux kernel that causes it to accept 0/8 and 240/4 as regular unicast addresses) If anyone would like to talk more about any aspect of this, please get in touch!
    - mitchs 6y ago
      Is the intent to get class E routed on the public internet, or just make it available in private networks? I've seen docker configs squatting on chunks of class E space for the local bridge interface, presumably because Linux takes it, and it doesn't usually clash with the landmines in rfc 1918 space. I know of at least one company using class E as the new 8/8 ;)
      - schoen 6y ago
        We're interested in routing it on the public Internet, although I also know that some people are using it internally and that one of the two older public proposals about this suggested that it might be better as new private address space. One way that I've been thinking about the reachability issue is by analogy to https://blog.cloudflare.com/fixing-reachability-to-1-1-1-1-globally/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/fixing-reachability-to-1-1-1-1-g... Many organizations used 1.1.1.1 as a test address (in addition to other uses of 1/8), so once Cloudflare started working to get a public service up there, it had to perform various reachability tests and also set up a way for people to report problems. This is apparently an ongoing process to this day, but Cloudflare's hard work helped make reachability that was initially patchy get asymptotically better. I think we can much do the same with other previously unassigned address ranges.
ConcernedCoder 6y ago
broker fee of $545,260 boy am I in the wrong business... I'm imagining something like: "Hey you want to buy?" ... "Yes!"... cha ching!
- jonas21 6y ago
  Meanwhile, here I am thinking, "Only 0.5%? Where were you when I sold my house?"

The precise numbers are 4,194,304 * $26.13 = $109,597,164 - broker fee of $545,260 = $109,051,904 net.

by drmpeg 6y ago

The precise numbers are 4,194,304 * $26.13 = $109,597,164 - broker fee of $545,260 = $109,051,904 net.

zaroth 6y ago

So that makes the current IPv4 address space total market cap ~$112 billion.

aidenn0 6y ago
There are roughly 20 class 8s worth of special addresses, which reduces that by $10 billion or so.
- Ekaros 6y ago
  I wish I could sell parts of my 127/8...
  - metalliqaz 6y ago
    it's not yours, it's mine!
- schoen 6y ago
  I'm working on a project with John Gilmore to make those special addresses usable. https://github.com/schoen/unicast-extensions https://github.com/schoen/unicast-extensions (note that most of the content in this repository was written by Dave Taht, who was running this project before; he got patches merged in the mainline Linux kernel that causes it to accept 0/8 and 240/4 as regular unicast addresses) If anyone would like to talk more about any aspect of this, please get in touch!
  - mitchs 6y ago
    Is the intent to get class E routed on the public internet, or just make it available in private networks? I've seen docker configs squatting on chunks of class E space for the local bridge interface, presumably because Linux takes it, and it doesn't usually clash with the landmines in rfc 1918 space. I know of at least one company using class E as the new 8/8 ;)
    - schoen 6y ago
      We're interested in routing it on the public Internet, although I also know that some people are using it internally and that one of the two older public proposals about this suggested that it might be better as new private address space. One way that I've been thinking about the reachability issue is by analogy to https://blog.cloudflare.com/fixing-reachability-to-1-1-1-1-globally/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/fixing-reachability-to-1-1-1-1-g... Many organizations used 1.1.1.1 as a test address (in addition to other uses of 1/8), so once Cloudflare started working to get a public service up there, it had to perform various reachability tests and also set up a way for people to report problems. This is apparently an ongoing process to this day, but Cloudflare's hard work helped make reachability that was initially patchy get asymptotically better. I think we can much do the same with other previously unassigned address ranges.

ConcernedCoder 6y ago

broker fee of $545,260 boy am I in the wrong business... I'm imagining something like: "Hey you want to buy?" ... "Yes!"... cha ching!

jonas21 6y ago
Meanwhile, here I am thinking, "Only 0.5%? Where were you when I sold my house?"