9 Nov
2018
9 Nov
'18
10:03 a.m.
On 11/8/18 9:46 PM, Lin Holcomb wrote:
Right now most of the space is used for what is
basically
non-routable
That's a valid use of IP space. Many things are not in the global table but
have a need of unique IP space. Even ARIN calls this out in 4.3.5, and the
other RIR's have a policy of this. Regardless the AMPR allocation predates
this and is not subject to this.
It would not take much for it to be yanked out from
under us as thing stand.
Care to explain? ARDC owns the space. It's not a grant or license from an
RIR, but is legally property as it was allocated by Postel in the 80's.
The only conceivable way I could see this happening would be someone sues ARDC
and ARDC would not have money to defend itself. Even this is a bit far
fetched, but as 44/8 is worth in excess of 200M USD, it does stick out for an
"enterprising" lawyer to target.
At the end of the day a /8 isn't going to buy us even a couple months of IPv4
burn. If we all do IPv6 now, in 10 years 44/8 will be worthless.
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