Subj : The /8 addresses
To   : Markus Reschke
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Fri Apr 25 2014 00:57:34

Hello Markus,

On Thursday April 24 2014 20:21, you wrote to Bj”rn Felten:

 BF>> Reading the list of assigned /8 IPv4 addresses is almost like
 BF>> looking at Who is Who in corporate USA.

 MR> And I bet that most of those addresses are not reachable by the public
 MR> internet.

My guess is that most of those adresses are not used at all.

 MR>  The companies are too lazy to renumber to 10.0.0.0/8.

There is little incentive. What do they have to gain? Plus that recycling those addresses will only delay the inevitable by a few years. The effort had better go into the future: make IPv6 work!


Cheers, Michiel

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