One thing I’ve realized lately is that scarcity is actually a benefit of ipv4, much in the way of the maximum amount of bitcoins theoretically increases their value.
Ipv4 addresses are being ranked by their reputation. This is a good thing, at least right now, as it makes scammers/spammers/hackers/ddosers lives more expensive to acquire fresh addresses. This can only exist when a shortage exists.
> This is a good thing, at least right now, as it makes scammers/spammers/hackers/ddosers lives more expensive to acquire fresh addresses. This can only exist when a shortage exists.
No it is not. More and more people share addresses so more people would be affected and it would just move the problem elsewhere.
You know that if everyone in the world wants to have a dedicated, unshared IPv4, it is mathematically impossible. Bragging about it is showing your privilege and sense of entitlement. What makes you special that you deserve a dedicated IPv4?
Not always though. Lower end VPS providers seem to be moving towards placing you on a shared /64. I run into issues on a particular Digital Ocean instance of mine where my IPv6 allocation is something like a /112 and it gets swept up in bans on the parent /64 because of other's bad behavior.
Then you have other providers like Vultr that do weird things like not statically route your /64 prefix to your instance which kind of defeats the entire point of having a /64.
Digital Ocean has been in the wrong with their IPv6 allocation since the day the implemented it. One of the rules of IPv6 is never allocate less than a /64. Unfortunately their network admins don't seem to care.
Ipv4 addresses are being ranked by their reputation. This is a good thing, at least right now, as it makes scammers/spammers/hackers/ddosers lives more expensive to acquire fresh addresses. This can only exist when a shortage exists.