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Re:AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5B by jasekt on Monday September 18, 2023 @02:22AM (#37552883)
EU have enough influence to do to IPV6 what it did to USB in iPhones.
Re:AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5B by Sebguer on Monday September 18, 2023 @02:33AM (#37552945)
It's harder to prove consumer harm with something as abstract as IP addresses, and there's a bunch of other pieces that make this much less unlikely, such as the fact that USBs already become obsolete and need to be replaced, so you're just shifting the replacement cycle.
Re:AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5B by irdc on Monday September 18, 2023 @03:14AM (#37553242)
With all those addresses locked up at the hyperscalers IPv4 has become anticompetitive. So yes, the EU can prove consumer harm.
Re:AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5B by nonethewiser on Monday September 18, 2023 @04:52AM (#37553803)
They don’t need to prove consumer harm to pass laws.
Re:AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5B by jjeaff on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @03:46AM (#37566758)
exactly. US anti-trust requires you prove harm to the consumer. In the EU, anti-competitive behavior is enough.
Re:AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5B by SamuelAdams on Monday September 18, 2023 @12:41PM (#37558547)
Actually the US gov’t adopted a policy last November to migrate all services to ipv6 by 2025. So the USA might have some weight in the migration.

https://www.ferc.gov/internet-protocol-version-6-ipv6-policy