On 2-okt-2007, at 15:05, Keith Moore wrote:
Ray Plzak wrote:
The shortage of IPv4 addresses in developing countries in a red
herring.
that has to rank as one of the most bizarre statements that's ever
been
made on the ietf list.
Yellow herring?
There are five RIRs that serve different parts of the world. Each of
them will give people pretty much all the addresses they reasonably
need if they pay the RIR fees (starts at a few thousand dollars a
year) and maybe qualify for some minimum size.
There may be people who can't afford this, or people who can't afford
to buy the connectivity to make these addresses useful, but the
address space in and of itself is not the issue. Point in case:
China. By the turn of the century, they only had 7.57 million
addresses of the 1.6 billion in use at that point (as far as I can
determine easily right now, there may be some differences) but today
it's 130 million of 2.55 billion.
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