Goodbye, IPv4 IANA Starts Allocating Final Address Blocks

Re:Goodbye, IPv4 IANA Starts Allocating Final Address Blocks by hrrsn on Thursday May 22, 2014 @07:12PM (#7787136)

A /8 is 16,777,216 addresses.

Ford has 181,000 employees as of 2013 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company).

That's very roughly 92 publicly routable IP addresses per employee.

I highly doubt they need that many.

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Re:Goodbye, IPv4 IANA Starts Allocating Final Address Blocks by icefox on Thursday May 22, 2014 @08:58PM (#7787497)

What about 1 per car?

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Re:Goodbye, IPv4 IANA Starts Allocating Final Address Blocks by mikeash on Thursday May 22, 2014 @10:13PM (#7787680)

In practice, I imagine they'd outsource the internet connectivity bit to cellular carriers (as is the case for OnStar and similar at the moment) and those companies would be the ones to worry about provisioning IP addresses.

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Re:Goodbye, IPv4 IANA Starts Allocating Final Address Blocks by blueskin_ on Friday May 23, 2014 @09:23AM (#7789193)

This, plus the IPs mobile networks use are all heavily NATed anyway.

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Re:Goodbye, IPv4 IANA Starts Allocating Final Address Blocks by hrrsn on Friday May 23, 2014 @07:00PM (#7791845)

Perfect use case for IPv6 anyway.

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