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Up until now, the rational choice was to dole out as many IPv4 addresses as possible, in order to justify a larger allocation from ARIN. Now that the party's o
by p1mrx 11y ago
Up until now, the rational choice was to dole out as many IPv4 addresses as possible, in order to justify a larger allocation from ARIN. Now that the party's over, we should expect ISPs and hosting providers to become more stingy with their addresses: more NATs, more proxies, higher prices.
Any new providers that pop up between now and the date IPv4 becomes irrelevant will be at a competitive disadvantage.
- solotronics 11y agoFrom the perspective of the ISP many customers are totally incapable of implementing NAT and waste IP addresses like they are dollar bills at the strip club.
- pdkl95 11y ago> more NATs Thus finishing the imprimatur[1]. It is an utter travesty that we haven't junked IPv4 yet. NAT removes the most powerful feature of the internet - that anybody can publish without the permission of a central authority - and I fear too many people in the software industry profit from the resulting centralization to resist things like carrier grade NAT. > the date IPv4 becomes irrelevant That date was 03-Feb-2011 at the latest[2]. > competitive disadvantage. The problem is the people with larger IPv4 address blocks who se this competitive disadvantage as a good thing. [1] https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/ https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/ [2] http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html