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... Internet. In particular, re-numbering was painful. The lesson that
we learned was that every IP address ought to be globally unique,
independent of its attachment to the Internet. This makes it
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... IP
access. When this problem is addressed through proper privacy and
authentication standards, non-unique IP addresses will become a
bottleneck to easy deployment if the recommendations in RFC 1597(-> 1918) ...
... question is simply: when?
If we assert that all IP addresses must be unique globally, connected
or not, then we will run out of IP address space soon.
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... If we assert that all IP addresses must be unique globally, connected
or not, then we will run out of IP address space soon.
If we assert that only IP addresses ...
... IP address space soon.
If we assert that only IP addresses used on the world-wide Internet
need to be globally unique, then we will run out of IP address ...
... IP addresses used on the world-wide Internet
need to be globally unique, then we will run out of IP address space
later.
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... apparent relief will likely produce two results: complacency on the
large part of the community that does not take the long term view,
and a very sudden IP address space exhaustion at some later date.
Prior to IPng deployment ...
... Apple Computer, IBM, and Motorola
could not collaborate as easily as they have to produce the PowerPC
without uniquely assigned IP addresses. The same can be said of the
Silicon Graphics merger with MIPS. There are many, many more examples
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... IANA as its agent) reassert their ownership of the IP address space
now, to preclude challenges to this type of reassignment.
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... the addresses. In fact, it is equally plausible that globally unique
IP addresses will be required, for every one of the scenarios
described in RFC 1597(-> 1918):
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... Finally, RFC 1597(-> 1918) implies that it may be simple to change a host's IP
address. For a variety of reasons this may not be the case, and it
is not the norm today. For example, a host may be well known within
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... address changed. A host
may have software licenses locked by IP address. Thus, migrating a
host from private to global addressing ...
... authorization. Hence, we strongly encourage IANA to
withdraw its IP address assignments documented by RFC 1597(-> 1918) forthwith.
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