turborigby

RIRs (RIPE NCC, ARIN, APNIC, etc.) are non-profit membership organizations, not commercial entities trying to "monetize" IP addresses.

Their registration fees directly fund critical global Internet infrastructure: the WHOIS databases, RPKI trust anchors, root DNS servers, and policy governance. If their operational budget collapses by 90%, it's not a loss of "profit" - it means there is literally no one funded to maintain the authoritative registry of who owns which ASN and route origin authorizations.

And even setting governance and economics aside, the technical failure modes remain fatal: 28-byte header PMTU blackholing, uRPF collisions on multi-homed links, and ASIC slow-path punting on existing linecards.

The entire point of the experiment was to take this specific, absurd Internet-Draft (which indeed exists as an active submission) and see what happens if someone actually implements it to the letter instead of just hand-waving it away.

LLMs might be able to hallucinate RFC text, but they certainly can't compile a patched Linux 6.6 kernel with a working AF_INET8 socket family, patch musl/iproute2/frr, spawn a 10-node QEMU mesh, and route 112,000 active FIB entries under live traffic.

The source code and commit history are right there in the GitLab repos - feel free to pull the kernel tree and run the test suite yourself.

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Unlike boring corporate providers, we just actually have a sense of humor (or more accurately, the developer has overdosed on TikToks and brainrot reels).

Satirical branding doesn't mean the bare-metal servers or the kernel code aren't real.

Fixed the Content-Type header on R2 CDN, the UTF-8 box-drawing diagrams should render cleanly now. Thanks for pointing it out!