Re:X12
by oleg_antonyan on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @03:30AM
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Well, most providers worldwide still use IPv4 which means that cost of switching to IPv6 is higher than cost of maintaining workarounds for 10 years, and who knows, maybe it will be the same for another 10 years
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No it's higher because they've started charging for IPv4 addresses, they just don't want to lose their cash cow...
But it's really not. About 85% of the entire public IPv4 range is currently announced.
Transfering IPv4 prefixes comes with a 2 year transfer restriction period.
IPv4 addresses currently cost about $50, and you have to buy an entire subnet at once, minimum /24.
It makes perfect sense to start charging for them if you're running out of them and don't want to buy additional prefixes.
Not to mention that there's also additional cost involved in case someone was using that particular address (or even worse multiple addresses from the same /24) for spam or malicious purposes, because that means that the entire prefix is currently trashed and there's some effort involved for it to be removed from all the independently maintained blacklists etc.