[ShirleyMarquez]

MIT had about 700 IPv4 addresses for every human being involved with the Institute - students, faculty, and staff. They're only putting half of them on the market, so they will still have 350 per person. I don't think it's going to compromise the quality of their network services or the availability of IP addresses for people who want them.

Like most large institutions, MIT doesn't give public IP addresses to most client devices (desktops, laptops, phones, and tablets); they get DHCP address in the 10.x.x.x range behind a NAT because it's a bit easier to firewall them that way. But real IP addresses are available if you need them to run services.