Conservation

• A few years ago, consensus was that IPv4 address space would run out in the near future

• Classless assignments causes this problem to be a medium-term problem now

  • Conservative address policies help
  • NAT and other tricks help too
    • but are not (and should not be) mandatory
    • you will get the address space you need, you may not get the address space you want

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