WKBI #586, Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public

Thu Nov 18 13:43:14 UTC 2021

On Thu, 2021-11-18 at 10:51 +0000, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> The ask is to update every ip stack in the world (including
> validation, 
> equipment retirement, reconfiguration, etc) and the gain is 4 weeks
> of 
> extra ip address space in terms of estimated consumption.

(Not to mention the static 127.in-addr.arpa zone that pretty much every
resolver has configured by default these days.)

The burn rate is the best argument I've seen against the idea so far.

-- Steven
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