[NNagain] ip address exhaustion podcast

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2024, Dave Taht via Nnagain wrote:

> renting the allocations they own to their customers. (The 240/4 "for
> future use" problem is a relative distraction, honestly! but amazon's
> use of it *all* does irk me, as I had intended that space be used for
> all of humanity). Certainly by finally charging for their IPV4

The fact that it's now used internally in places, is yet another reason it 
will never show up in the global routing table.

Turning 240/4 into something usable on the wider Internet is a futile 
fight. It's however good for internal use as IPv4 already often needs 
translation boxes to talk to the global Internet (DFZ). So the work 
already done on making end systems able to use 240/4 is fine, but it also 
meant it's now used for internal things. So the fight should be to make it 
into proper RFC1918 style addresses for internal use so everybody agrees 
what's going on.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se