Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work

Re:Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work by daenney on Friday July 15, 2016 @10:30AM (#12101187)

What you'd need to get is provider independent (PI) address space and you're not going to get that, at least not for v4, as an individual, anymore. You're then going to have to find someone that will announce that prefix for you (Amazon could) or do that yourself (which also means getting an AS number and peering with people at internet exchanges, assuming you can get away with that without also getting some paying transit) and then start building out your infrastructure. That's a rather unreasonable amount of hoops to put someone without a strong technical background through.

Having a custom domain would get your far enough in this case, owning your own IP address isn't really needed.

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Re:Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work by a3n on Friday July 15, 2016 @10:39AM (#12101266)

So the intent of the meta-domains I mentioned in my original might be better served by a personal IPv6 block, that doesn't come from a corporation's reserved blocks.

Just as I move my domain around between email (and other) providers, I could then move my IPv6 block around. Instead of asking Linode for an IP address out of their block, I could tell them "serve this block." (Or can we already do that? For a reasonable price?)

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Re:Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work by lmm on Friday July 15, 2016 @11:52AM (#12101836)

IP addresses are meant to be addresses; if you move your address around everyone else has to update their routing tables. To do what you want you probably want to get your own AS Number and actually participate in routing (BGP etc). I've heard of quite small businesses doing that, but not individuals.

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Re:Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work by calgoo on Friday July 15, 2016 @01:05PM (#12102377)

I was looking to do this, but it was just too hard. I believe you need to have a company / association of some kind with a VAT number to get registered. The closest I have found is going with the IPv6 tunnels from someone like Hurricane Electric, but speed is a bit limited.

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Re:Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work by lmm on Friday July 15, 2016 @03:19PM (#12103212)

It's a lot easier than you might think to set up a company and get a VAT number (I'm a contractor so have done that already), though it does cost some money (IIRC something like 40 quid).

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Re:Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work by daenney on Friday July 15, 2016 @10:59AM (#12101429)

Yet with only a personal IPv6 block half the world can't access your resources so that's not a reasonable method at this time.

If you control the DNS there's no real need for owning your own IP addresses as you can just change what they point to. That's usually also much faster to do in a pinch than find a new party that will announce your block and convince the old one to stop doing so. That's usually hours if not days in lead time.

Though if you truly care enough about it you'll also want your own DNS servers and own gTLD in order to own the whole chain.

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Re:Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work by __b__ on Friday July 15, 2016 @09:00PM (#12104727)

And to serve that private gTLD to others, you'll need a reachable IP address. :)

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Re:Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work by __b__ on Friday July 15, 2016 @11:01AM (#12101456)

I only meant "renting" a reachable IP from some third party. I think that's realistic.

However what you describe -- building out your own infrastructure -- still remains a lofty but worthy endeavor for anyone with the skills and determination.

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Re:Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work by pjc50 on Friday July 15, 2016 @11:47AM (#12101803)

No, third parties can change your IP address on fairly short notice (days or weeks) for their own reasons. And of course you can't change provider without changing IP either.

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Re:Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work by __b__ on Friday July 15, 2016 @12:37PM (#12102187)

But if and how frequently such changes occur depends on the third party. And as you say, the terms should require adequate notice.

Businesses of all sizes rent stable IP addresses. Some ISPs in some countries also provide them to non-business subscribers as part of the standard subscription.

It's really not too difficult to have a persistent IP address for an individual who only needs reachability and is not trying to run a high traffic, global enterprise. Avoid the popular large, high-volume providers. Obviously do not use something like AWS.

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