[address-policy-wg] 2011-03 New Policy Proposal (Post-depletion IPv4 address recycling)

Hi,

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 04:33:37PM +0200, Marcin Kuczera wrote:
> >  - this is the whole *point* of the "last /8" policy - to give people that
> >    want to start a business "with Internet things!" a few years in the
> >    future the chance to get a few IPv4 addresses to run their NAT64 boxes
> >    (and whatever other migration technologies need IPv4 addresses) on.
> > 
> >    (IPv4 will still run out, though, and nothing we can do will change that).
> 
> well,
> how about opening new LIR, getting IPv6 + IPv4 and merging that LIR with 
> other LIR... Then the OTHER LIR will have more than single /22 from the 
> last /8....

Yes, you can certainly do that.  Or you can buy another company that has IPv4
addresses left.  Both come with a certain price tag.

Or you can deploy IPv6.

At some point in time, spending heaps of money to get another small bit
of IPv4 addresses is just not worth the effort anymore.  And there is nothing
in the address policy area that we can do to magically make IPv4 last
forever.  But this whole discussion is completely out of scope for the
policy proposal at hand - it does not install a "last /8" policy (we
already have that), just clarifies some conditions.

Gert Doering
        -- APWG chair
-- 
did you enable IPv6 on something today...?

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