Comment: Re:Exactly why we don't need IPv6 (Score 1) 326
While your post is correct, it's off-topic.
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Thus each user of an IPv6 subnet automatically has available a set of globally routable source-specific multicast
The goal with IPv6 allocations is to give more than enough IPv6 address space. They want to prevent an organization from needing to come back to request more and also to avoid fragmented route prefix advertising in the core Internet routing tables.
Here your answer why 128bit addresses are used. You don't hand out address based on need, you give something so large that no one could use it all.
Exactly. They were issued these blocks in good faith. They are hoarding them, and they dont own them - they need to return them so they can actually be used
You make it sound like they are doing something they shouldn't. In reality, IPv4 was a proof of concept and anyone was allowed to join the "beta" network. "Here have some IP addresses, free of charge, they're yours until we make the "real" protocol.
IPv4 takes off and now these companies who got these large
Never have so many understood so little about so much. -- James Burke