Again and again you see responses to IPv ... / 2010-07-28

Again and again you see responses to IPv4-will-run-out stories like "but what if we reclaim space from ..." or "but what if we use more NAT". I found one of the best answers to all of these:

Optimizing the utilization of less than 25% of the address space in the face of the consumption rate on the 75% side simply cannot yield a meaningful result. It really is akin to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Source: Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough? and used several times before on IPv6 mailing lists.