Re: IPv4 flag day

David Conrad via NANOG <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Jun 2026 06:14:38 +0000

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On Jun 19, 2026, at 12:19 PM, Saku Ytti <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jun 2026 at 11:32, David Conrad <[email protected]> wrote:
>> "Big tech shops” buying up all the addresses would drive the asset value up, increasing the likelihood the beancounters will see incentives to migrate.
> It is an irrelevant cost to them. There is more value to them that competitors cannot have them. Hence antitrust.

I was speaking of SMBs. They might (historically were, in my experience) be interested in the asset sale, particularly as they moved to the cloud/SAAS and defensively reduced their public Internet exposure.

> Free market won't fix the problem we created.

I have some skepticism that a “turn off IPv4 day” mandate from (some) network operators will change things significantly, but I’m frequently wrong.

Regards,
-drc

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