Subj : Just how big is IPv6?
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Mon Dec 23 2024 22:51:39

Hello Kurt!

23 Dec 24 15:22, you wrote to Warpslide:

 KW> I wonder if the proliferation of NAT as a way of working around IPV4
 KW> address exhaustion has helped make us a network of content consumers,
 KW> not participants in a greater experiment.

That is why NAT was developed and why IPv6 adoption has been so slow for the 
last 20+ years.

 KW> One thing I'd alway heard about IPV4 is that part of the problem was
 KW> the inequality of IP space allocation. Doesn't GE have an entire class
 KW> A? I know some earlier companies have entire class Bs, like BBN?

The feds own over 30% of the IPv4 Class A blocks.

-- Sean


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