"I would see a more likely situation of a theft of parts of the space"
This has been happening for quite some time. When I first arrived in
America some 20 years ago to work for NASDAQ I discovered that their test
network was using the 44/8 series of IP's. I flagged this up at the time o
this list. Luckily for us they are using it as a private point to point
network.
Mark
G7LTT/NI2O
On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 7:58 AM Lin Holcomb <LHolcomb(a)clearqualitygroup.com>
wrote:
> I would see a more likely situation of a theft of parts of the space. This
> has already occurred on a small scale. It takes money to defend patents it
> talks money to operate 16m addresses.
>
> I was just suggesting lease a few blocks to have income to further the use
> by hams, provide capital to provide low cost pops and have additional
> access points in the event the deal at UCSD ever goes away. Do this while
> the price is high to form an endowment to run the technology in the future.
> Lin
> On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 6:10 AM Tony Ellis <tonyellis3.te(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > IPv6 is already here. My mobile phone is dual stack, IPv4 and IPv6, it
> > will continue to grow and like everything, it is just a matter of time.
> > Some of my ISP's are dual stacked, etc. Will IPv4 go away, my best guess
> > is 2090....???
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 9:40 PM Neil Johnson <neil.johnson(a)erudicon.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18407173
> > >
> > >
> > > Note: I'm NOT advocating anything like that for 44.0.0.0/8.
> > >
> > > It's just going to be fun to watch the market for IPv4 address space
> boom
> > > and then bust when IPv6 adoption finally reaches critical mass.
> > >
> > > -Neil, N0SFH
> > > --
> > > Neil Johnson
> > >