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Re: [Int-area] Introducing IPv4 Unicast Extensions with new draft-schoen-intarea-lowest-address

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Tue, 03 August 2021 12:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Int-area] Introducing IPv4 Unicast Extensions with new draft-schoen-intarea-lowest-address
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On 2021-08-03, at 11:43, John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com> wrote:
> 
> create hundreds of
> millions of newly usable addresses, worth billions of dollars at current
> prices.

How do you make sure those billions arrive at the millions who get fed with the externality of this change?  Changing routers, even if it is only a config change, costs money and creates opportunity costs (lost time), a cost that is better invested in accelerating the migration to IPv6.

Grüße, Carsten

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