= Сообщение: 573 из 7442 ============================================== IPV6 = От : Michiel van der Vlist 2:280/5555 24 Apr 14 01:11:20 Кому : Björn Felten 24 Apr 14 01:11:20 Тема : The /8 addresses FGHI : area://IPV6?msgid=2:280/5555+53584d9d На : area://IPV6?msgid=2:203/2+53584302 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP850 ================================== Ответ: area://IPV6?msgid=2:240/1661+53550fc5 ============================================================================== Hello Björn,
On Thursday April 24 2014 00:47, you wrote to All:
BF> First of all, at least ten of the 254 available /8 address ranges BF> (almost 170 million) has been assigned to the US DoD.
BF> Fair enough, after all it was their invention to start with. But BF> 170 million addresses? Not even if they give every single gun it's own BF> IPv4 address it would make any sense.
You can't judge Jon Postel (he was the one who did it) with what we know today. What basically started as an experiment with an address space that was considered "infinite" got out of hand in a way that nobody foresaw. You can't blame people for not foreseeing the future...
BF> After that there is:
BF> 03.0.0.0/8 General Electric Company BF> 09.0.0.0/8 IBM BF> 12.0.0.0/8 AT&T Services BF> 13.0.0.0/8 Xerox Corporation
etc.
But there also is:
044/8 Amateur Radio Digital Communications
BF> ... and so on. All of them with a hefty 16.77M address space. And, BF> unlike e.g. Stanford University, that had 36.0.0.0/8 but returned BF> their allocated block,
Nice gesture, but in the end it will just delay the inevitable by a few month.
BF> none of the US companies seems interested in reducing their blocks to BF> a more normal state, but rather is trying to make money of it, selling BF> addresses to the highest bidders.
I wish them luck. Yes, they may make a few bucks doing that. But only from suckers who have been late to jump on the IPv6 train. Investing in IPv4 addresses is a bad long term strategy. It is going slow, too slow, but in the long run the Internet WILL move to Ipv6. And when it does, the value of those hoarded IPv4 addresses will drop to next to nothing. Right now the market value for an IPv4 address is around EUR 10. My prediction is that it may rise a bit in the coming years, but that it will drop when the IPv6 train gains speed and that five years from now, it will have dropped below EUR 1.
