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Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

  • From: Edward Lewis
  • Date: Thu Jun 28 14:02:01 2007

At 17:42 +0100 6/28/07, Stephen Wilcox wrote:

- that less than 50% of the v4 space is currently routed. scarcity will
presumably cause these non-routed blocks to be:
 :- used and routes
 :- reclaimed and reassigned
 :- sold on

There's also the possibility:

:- continued to be used as they are, just not seen on the Internet.

Unrouted address space isn't always missing matter.

(E.g., see GSMA PRD IR.40, http://www.gsmworld.com/documents/ireg/ir4040.pdf)
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