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> Why would that be relevant here Because it shows how wasteful these companies operate with resources others are in need of.
by manuel_w 5y ago
> Why would that be relevant here
Because it shows how wasteful these companies operate with resources others are in need of.
- xenadu02 5y agoIt's irrelevant. Even if the authority existed to reclaim all the /8s handed out to private companies (it doesn't) you'd kick the can down the road a few years at best. Then we'd be right back in the same boat. There are only ~4 billion IPv4 addresses. There are more than that many humans alive, most of whom have or will have a smartphone. So we're already short on addresses without considering network equipment, servers, IoT, or anything else.
- assttoasstmgr 5y agoIf they own the IP space they can do with it as they please. They've had it since 1992. It reminds me of the nouveau urbanists that move into places like SF in droves then instantly start complaining that the little old lady down the street, who has lived in the same house for 50 years, is being greedy and wasteful because she doesn't sell her family home to developers who will build 50 shoebox condos in its place. I suspect most of the "10/8 ought to be enough for anyone" crowd has never worked on a complex enterprise network. Just because a netblock is in use doesn't mean it has to be routable to the Internet. The problem isn't with IBM. The problem is all the cloud BS -- the 18,000th food delivery app that no one asked for -- isn't using IPv6. And that's just pure laziness on the developers' part.