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CKN23-ARINon IPv4 for sale – WIDE and APNIC selling 43.0.0.0/8

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Correct URL: https://toonk.io/ipv4-sale-wide-and-apnic-selling-43-8/index...

I tried to re-submit with the correct URL, but it got erroneously canonicalized to the same thing and marked as a dupe.

CKN23-ARINon 100Mbps uploads and downloads should be US broadband standard, senators say

It's at least somewhat inherent to the technology. DOCSIS download channels are shared among subscribers; upload channels are allocated exclusively per-subscriber. This architecture provides economic incentives for the provider to provision asymmetric circuits rather than symmetric ones.

CKN23-ARINon 100Mbps uploads and downloads should be US broadband standard, senators say

It's asymmetric, providing far less upload capacity than download.

CKN23-ARINon 100Mbps uploads and downloads should be US broadband standard, senators say

The letter specifically calls for symmetrical speeds of at least 100Mbps. Let's hope that this is the death of PON-based FTTH.

CKN23-ARINon Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses

Jealous! I pay ARIN hundreds of dollars a year in RSA fees.

As a legacy address holder, how do you feel about RPKI?

CKN23-ARINon Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses

There are five regulatory bodies managing it. Six, if you count IANA.

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/allocation-ipv4-rirs-2...

https://afrinic.net/policy/manual

https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/nrpm/

https://www.apnic.net/community/policy/

https://www.lacnic.net/1033/2/lacnic/policies

https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-policies

CKN23-ARINon Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses

I think we'll still see some people doing NAT66, unfortunately.

CKN23-ARINon Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses

Autonomous System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet)

CKN23-ARINon Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses

The exception to this is a handful of remaining "legacy" pre-RIR address holders. I'm surprised AWS, etc. are so willingly handing the addresses they buy from legacy holders over to ARIN.

CKN23-ARINon Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses

What kind of entities does your broker rent them out to? Are you worried at all about tenants trashing your IPs' reputation and future market value?

CKN23-ARINon Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses

The smallest routable IPv4 network on the Internet is a /24, which is 256 addresses. Regional Internet Registries won't assign you smaller than a /24, but individual ISPs might. Even if you have an assignment, maintaining it requires payment of annual fees to your RIR, unless you're a lucky "legacy" address holder from before the RIRs were formed.

CKN23-ARINon Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses

Some carriers are engaging in IPv6-only peering spats, which is also harming adoption. Cogent, recipient (and rejector) of the famous Peering Cake[1], has no IPv6 routes to Google or Hurricane Electric, for example.

[1] https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/sites/datacenterknowledg...

CKN23-ARINon Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses

They're still expanding their IPv4 holdings, and IPv6 support would hamper that.

CKN23-ARINon Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses

NAT

CKN23-ARINon Self-Hosting Still Pays

.12c/gbit?? I need to renegotiate my transit bill...

CKN23-ARINon Disclosure: Unlimited Chase Ultimate Rewards Points

Which will, in turn, result in a higher likelihood of similar bugs in the future.

CKN23-ARINon Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access

AWS and Azure prevent Iran-based users from having an account, but if you have an account, you can exchange traffic with Iranian IPs. GCP blocks traffic to/from Iranian IPs for all users. It sounded to me like GP was referring to the latter type of blocking.

CKN23-ARINon Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access

Other than GCP, which US based cloud providers do this?

CKN23-ARINon Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access

> The internet is not a parallel universe.

John Perry Barlow begs to differ.

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence

CKN23-ARINon A legislative path to an interoperable internet

NIST. Hmm. Isn't this the IETF's job?

CKN23-ARINon Wifi Dabba (YC W17) – Own a Piece of the Internet in India

Do you have an ASN? Where are you getting your bandwidth from?

CKN23-ARINon Purism's AweSIM – monthly plan for Librem5 including unlimited data

"Text, Calls, and Data are unlimited. Peak data users may be compressed to peak average"

What does this mean, exactly? At what point does "compression" kick in, and what does "compression" entail?

CKN23-ARINon The unrealized potential of federation

People often forget that "the Internet" itself (i.e. IP, BGP) operates on a federated basis.

CKN23-ARINon Gifted Children as Hidden Persuaders in the Cold War (2019)

I think water treatment is pretty great.

CKN23-ARINon Emacs is special regarding UIs

Off-topicness

CKN23-ARINon Chromium's Impact on Root DNS Traffic

https://root-servers.org/

Select a root server at the bottom. Some, but not all, have a "statistics" link. Seems to be stated in qps and message size distribution, but you should be able to derive traffic volume from that.

CKN23-ARINon The Mess We're In (2014) [video]

RIP Joe Armstrong

CKN23-ARINon Comcast, Mozilla strike privacy deal to encrypt DNS lookups in Firefox

If you can run your own local, recursive resolver, you should.

CKN23-ARINon Electrons May Well Be Conscious

I suspect the experience of being an electron is something like this:

"Wheeeeee!"

CKN23-ARINon Nintendo has reportedly suffered a significant legacy console leak

The great thing about parallel reconstruction is that it doesn't leave evidence.