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0 pointsantientropic2y ago0 comments

> but it keeps not happening

The article you're responding to is a dramatic demonstration that it has happened: Amazon's IPs would not be worth $4.5B if we hadn't run out. It requires us all to ration a resource (namely numbers) that should be near-infinite and essentially free.

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mschuster912y ago

> It requires us all to ration a resource (namely numbers) that should be near-infinite and essentially free.

There can only be ~4.3 billion IPv4 addresses, which means that mathematically IP addresses are severely limited - you can't assign even one single globally routable IPv4 address per human. That's why we have NAT and its evolution CGNAT in the first place.

circuit102y ago

That’s their point, if there were more addresses we wouldn’t need to

mschuster912y ago

Back when the Internet was conceived, as a network of militaries, universities and large corporations, it was in no way foreseeable just how much resources humanity would need - and it was thought that the system would adapt.

However we got layers upon layers of closed-source middleboxes and everything ossified as a result.

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0 pointsantientropic2y ago0 comments

> but it keeps not happening

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mschuster912y ago

> It requires us all to ration a resource (namely numbers) that should be near-infinite and essentially free.

circuit102y ago

That’s their point, if there were more addresses we wouldn’t need to

mschuster912y ago

However we got layers upon layers of closed-source middleboxes and everything ossified as a result.

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