[124637] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: legacy /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sat Apr 3 03:07:41 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4BB68075.5050606@2mbit.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 16:53:39 -0700
To: Brielle Bruns <bruns@2mbit.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 2, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote:
> On 4/2/10 3:01 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote:
>> I am curious. Once we're nearing exhausting all IPv4 space will there
>> ever come a time to ask/demand/force returning all these legacy /8
>> allocations? I think I understand the difficulty in that, but then
>> running out of IPs is also a difficult issue. :-)
>>=20
>> For some reason I sooner see all IPv4 space being exhausted than IPv6
>> being actually implemented globally.
>>=20
>> Greetings,
>> Jeroen
>>=20
>=20
> I've got a rather stupidly simple and straightforward plan, since =
we're all throwing ideas out.
>=20
> Take back all the IP space from China and give them a single /20 and =
tell them to make do. They're already behind a great firewall, so they =
should have no problem using NAT with their citizens for easier =
restricting of freedoms, and for the actual services they need to run, =
they can assign a limited amount of static IP addresses for servers, and =
the rest NAT as well, and port forward for specific services.
>=20
Probably not the biggest flaw in this plan, but:
Total number of RFC-1918 addresses: 18+ million.
Population of China: More than 1.325 billion.
I'll leave the other political aspects to others, but, the math simply =
doesn't work.
Owen
