<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 25, 2019, at 2:24 PM, Martin Hannigan <<a href="mailto:hannigan@gmail.com" class="">hannigan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 5:07 PM Fernando Frediani <<a href="mailto:fhfrediani@gmail.com" class="">fhfrediani@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hello all.<br class="">
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Recently I have been reading some content about IPv4 exhaustion in order <br class="">
to understand better the problematic <br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">[ clip ]</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">From my perspective, there is no IPv4 exhaustion or shortage. Anyone can get almost anything they need on the transfer market. Granted, the shorter the prefix the harder it gets, but as it was demonstrated with 44/8 it is still possible. I'm not sure it is any simpler than that. <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">YMMV and best,</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>From my perspective, the biggest problem is the continued dependence on IPv4 and the resistance to simply deploying IPv6 and moving beyond the scarcity problem and all of its collateral damage (e.g. NAT, CGN, disruption of end-to-end addressing, the difficulty in following an audit trail or tracking down abuse, etc.).</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Owen</div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>