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Re:Unicast Use of the Formerly Reserved 127/8 by foxhop on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @06:16PM (#29247482)
Does this work help humanity or corporations? Could a large portion be given to the commons instead of sold to the highest bidder? Could we reinvent what the internet means and use this capacity for public and shared municipalities ran by the people for the people?
Re:Unicast Use of the Formerly Reserved 127/8 by easton on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @06:26PM (#29247563)
Not in any way that IPv6 doesn't. Most internet users are using their phones these days, and most carriers (at least in the US) give you a IPv6 address. And more and more ISPs are getting their heads out of their collective butts about getting IPv6 support now that it's getting expensive to buy IPv4 addresses.

Also, most ISPs (probably not the phone carriers) when giving you IPv6 give you a /64, so you get 2^64 (18,446,744,073,709,551,616) addresses. Which if you're anti-corporation, gives you a lot more room to play with than a single IP that you'll need to NAT behind.

Re:Unicast Use of the Formerly Reserved 127/8 by mjevans on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @06:48PM (#29247757)
Why can't they give me a proper /56 so I have at least 256 addresses to play with on the part that's intended to be used for prefix delegation? Even Comcast Business allocates a /56 but the stupid modems they require you to lease to use that service reserve 4 more bits of that so you only really get to operation on a /60.

CONSUMER gear should be getting at least /56 to the internal network, and Business grade should probably get at least /52. Which is almost what RIPE recommends (up to /48 for business customers, and /56 for normal users). https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-690

Re:Unicast Use of the Formerly Reserved 127/8 by franga2000 on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @02:05AM (#29249985)
/64 is actually pretty useless since you can't automatically allocate anything smaller than that. If I want to give each host on my net a bunch of addresses (maybe /72) I have to do that manually - DHCPv6/RA/whatever will straight up refuse to allocate anything smaller.
Re:Unicast Use of the Formerly Reserved 127/8 by api on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @08:11AM (#29252527)
You sure DHCP can’t do that? That surprises me given how many options it has. Maybe your server implementation just can’t.
Re:Unicast Use of the Formerly Reserved 127/8 by dtaht on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @07:01PM (#29247860)
the zeroth draft gives folk with an allocation a free new IP address.