legacy /8

Fri Apr 2 23:40:37 UTC 2010

On 4/2/10 3:01 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote:
> I am curious. Once we're nearing exhausting all IPv4 space will there
> ever come a time to ask/demand/force returning all these legacy /8
> allocations? I think I understand the difficulty in that, but then
> running out of IPs is also a difficult issue. :-)
>
> For some reason I sooner see all IPv4 space being exhausted than IPv6
> being actually implemented globally.
>
> Greetings,
> Jeroen
>

I've got a rather stupidly simple and straightforward plan, since we're 
all throwing ideas out.

Take back all the IP space from China and give them a single /20 and 
tell them to make do.  They're already behind a great firewall, so they 
should have no problem using NAT with their citizens for easier 
restricting of freedoms, and for the actual services they need to run, 
they can assign a limited amount of static IP addresses for servers, and 
the rest NAT as well, and port forward for specific services.

If they want to be an intranet, I say, lets help them achieve that goal. 
  They get to play in their own sandbox, and we get some IP space back 
to buy us more time.

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Brielle Bruns
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