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To address your edit, they still do because it doesn’t really matter. We have mitigated IPv4 exhaustion with NAT, and IPv6 adoption is still growing. No one car
by snowwrestler 5y ago
To address your edit, they still do because it doesn’t really matter. We have mitigated IPv4 exhaustion with NAT, and IPv6 adoption is still growing. No one cares enough to try to do anything about it.
If you made a list of “most popular concerns about the Internet in 2021,” the size of U.S. federal IP space would be pretty far down.
- nickthemagicman 5y agoNAT has problems. It isn't the same as having an IP address. IPV6 is the solution but has been in adoption forever. I just don't understand what the government needs with all of those IP addresses and what kind of sneaky stuff it's doing behind the scenes.
- SllX 5y agoIt’s not sneaky to own that much address space; just inertia. Remember that the Internet is an outgrowth of ARPANET.
- nickthemagicman 5y agoThe article was literally referring to some super sneaky stuff.