[members-discuss] GM topic

Am 26.04.24 um 20:25 schrieb ivaylo:
> I will be very happy somebody from RIPE to explain us, why one member can hold /8 just for fun (or testing or whatever), in the same time other member to have single /24 (or to be in a waiting queues) extreamly dificult to operate its bussiness because lack of resources

It's rather easy, you are in the mid-1990's and start to operate nation-wide dial-in services and you keep requesting IP addresses for your network and your subscribers. It's years before IPv4 runout and CGN wasn't invented yet (RFC 6598, 04/2012) and NAT wasn't common either — customers' single dial-up connected PC had one public v4 address and that's it. (Well, at that time, it was usualy _the_ only PC of the household anyway.)

And/or you were starting a hosting business, which initially meant one FQDN = one IPv4 (later that was still true for TLS, until SNI was widely supported, about 2008ish?). Requesting another /16 for new dial-in and hosting services — been there, done that in the late 90's. And I still think the needs-based IPv4 distribution at that time was as fair as it could be. But it was no secret back then that IPv4 space will be exhausted sooner than later, see e. g. https://www.ripe.net/publications/ipv6-info-centre/statistics-and-tools/ripe-position-statement-and-supporters/

15 years later we're still discussing over IPv4 address distribution. That's really sad.

Regards,
-kai

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