By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation

Re:By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation by Reason077 on Monday June 26, 2017 @12:48PM (#14638182)

NAT will make future sales of IPv4 blocks easier? As you say, MIT doesn't need all those 8 million IP addresses, and eventually will adopt IPv6 anyway. Might as well sell surplus v4 space while it's still valuable.

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Re:By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation by imjustapie on Monday June 26, 2017 @12:55PM (#14638260)

But why is MIT making money on those addresses more valuable than giving its students an opportunity to experiment and innovate? Why would selling those "unused" spaces to Amazon further the cause of IPv6?

Also MIT hasn't even rolled out IPv6 yet...

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Re:By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation by new299 on Monday June 26, 2017 @01:04PM (#14638355)

Would the logic not be that the money will be spent on more useful things for students?

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Re:By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation by imjustapie on Monday June 26, 2017 @01:16PM (#14638504)

Perhaps. I haven't seen public discussion on the plans to use the fund though, other than vague promise that it will be used on Internet things.

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Re:By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation by rovr138 on Monday June 26, 2017 @01:36PM (#14638698)

> Net proceeds from the sale will cover our network upgrade costs, and the remainder will provide a source of endowed funding for the Institute to use in furthering its academic and research mission.

Source: https://gist.github.com/simonster/e22e50cd52b7dffcf5a4db2b8e...

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Re:By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation by philipov on Monday June 26, 2017 @12:58PM (#14638299)

When the two are in direct conflict, is it more important for MIT to maximize the value it can extract out of its properties, or for it to promote adoption of improvements to technology?

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