Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast

Owen DeLong owen at delong.com
Sat Nov 20 21:12:36 UTC 2021



> On Nov 19, 2021, at 10:22 , John Curran <jcurran at istaff.org> wrote:
> 
> On 18 Nov 2021, at 8:14 PM, bzs at theworld.com <mailto:bzs at theworld.com> wrote:
>> That suggests an idea:
>> 
>> Repurpose these addresses and allow the RIRs to sell them in the IPv4
>> secondary markets with some earmark for the funds. Plus or minus
>> perhaps some worthy causes for "free" (not quite free but old school)
>> allocations. ...
> 
> (Sidestepping for the moment the question of technical merits of the proposal…) 
> 
> There’s this organization called the Internet Engineering Task Force that has been working hard to establish long-term financial independence and stability via the IETF Endowment project <https://www.ietf.org/endowment/ <https://www.ietf.org/endowment/>> –
> 
> Several of the Internet community organizations have made substantial contributions to this goal, but much more will be needed if the IETF is to achieve long-term funding stability.  Speaking entirely in my own personal capacity, I believe that long-term financial stability of the IETF is an extremely worthwhile goal for all of us to support and – to the extent that somehow changes to the IPv4 address specification result in a financial upside – I believe that the IETF Endowment would be a very appropriate beneficiary.

Perhaps this would be a good use of the ICANN Make Money Fast scheme^w^w^w^wNew TLD fund.

Owen

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