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		fanf2 on Aug 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) There are auctions for IPv4 space, though they did not really become a thing until after the RIRs ran out of IPv4 blocks. The price per address is about $50.

schoen on Aug 15, 2023 [–]

Yes, and hopefully we can use that kind of mechanism to allocate 240/4 in a way that achieves very high utilization.

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