Entire networks of computers can share a single public IP address so the 33.5 million public IP addresses supplied by two /8s could last quite a long time. Or we can let Ford sit on them.
with some 1M ips given out PER DAY, how long would two /8s last? 4 weeks, or 33 days. That is not "quite a bit longer", it is literally what I suggested.
It is only now, long after the crunch that thinking entire networks would share a single ip (hopefully never running any SIP,bittorrent or something that needs more than one port simultaneously) or the entire network would quickly run out of the 64k ports usable...
So, if Ford and whoever had that second net did give it back when it started to get scarce, all of 33 days is what we would have "won". Good margin for writing up that ipv6 migration plan I guess.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion#Addres...
Entire networks of computers can share a single public IP address so the 33.5 million public IP addresses supplied by two /8s could last quite a long time. Or we can let Ford sit on them.