Jay Hennigan wrote:
On 11/19/21 10:27, William Herrin wrote:
Howdy,
That depends on your timeline. Do you know many non-technical people
still using their Pentium III computers with circa 2001 software
versions? Connected to the Internet?
There are lots of very old networked industrial machines with embedded
computers operated by non-network-savvy people that are still very
much in use.
Think CNC machines in machine shops, SCADA systems, etc. I wouldn't be
a bit surprised to find quite a few 2001-era boxes still in service.
In the context of re-purposed IPv4 address scopes specialized equipment
will tend to be fairly limited in its communication needs and unlikely
to be affected.
I certainly hope they are, otherwise the security implications are severe.
How about we recast this as general purpose internet communicating
platforms likely to have occasion to interact with these re-purposed
addresses are nearly certain to undergo an upgrade or more over the next
decade, or how many non-technical people are still using the original
wrtg platform to connect them to the internet?
And yes, its quite possible that even then those addresses may have some
more baggage than the typical IPv4 block in use today (which are hardly
clean bills of health more often than not).
But the sooner the effort begins the more likely the utilitarian value
will be there if or when its needed.
Joe