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Re:ARIN down to 1.00 /8 – Akamai got 104.64.0.0/10 yesterday by asdfaoeu on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @10:16AM (#7634074)
These /8's have been historically been used internally there's no reason they should be handed back. Handing them back would just prolong the migration to IPv6 for limited benefit.

I imagine the only reason you would use a IPv6 private address is if you didn't have allocated global ones. It's just replacing no chance of collision with some chance of collision.

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Re:ARIN down to 1.00 /8 – Akamai got 104.64.0.0/10 yesterday by waps on Friday April 25, 2014 @02:10AM (#7644973)
You are defending the broken windows fallacy. Wikipedia can explain better than I do, but the TLDR is simply : you are defending useless destruction of value, the end result is that everyone's poorer, nothing else.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

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Re:ARIN down to 1.00 /8 – Akamai got 104.64.0.0/10 yesterday by lmm on Friday April 25, 2014 @05:45AM (#7645546)
No, just the opposite. There would be real costs for those companies that have /8s to move away from them. Meanwhile the gains would be minimal - at best it might allow some organizations to put off moving to IPv6 for a few months.
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