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  • TheBroodian [none/use name]
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    7 months ago

    I'm stupid, can you elaborate a little further about how ipv6 would make becoming an ISP easier?

    • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de
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      7 months ago

      There are no IPv4 addresses left. So you eather go IPv6-only, which would make many services not work. Or wait in a long queue to repurpose address spaces marked as depracated which would soon run out too. And then you put clients behind double or triple NAT doing having shitty service.

      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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        7 months ago

        There's proctored private resale of IPv4.

        A lot of orgs (mine included) are sitting on large chunks of IPs they don't need (we have a /16 and several /24s) because they adopted early, got an ASN and prefix assigned by ARIN, and their addressing scheme is now so disjointed and scattered that they can't sell off anything bigger than a /22, and that makes setting up BGP a pain. Juice ain't worth the squeeze.