No more IP for you

[Dave Hodgkinson]

On 20 Jan 2010, at 22:28, Pedro Figueiredo wrote:

> 
> On 20 Jan 2010, at 09:03, Luis Motta Campos wrote:
> 
>> http://www.nro.net/media/less-than-10-percent-ipv4-addresses-remain-unallocated.html
>> 
>> Now, the IP Allocation Market will start warming up... if you're sitting
>> on some IP addresses for several years now, I see big business
>> opportunities for you ahead.
> 
> I've been hearing this since 1996, when I set up a 6Bone tunnel and started providing v6 DNS and routing because "v4 addresses will run out by the end of next year, tops".
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf


Isn't it a case of wresting some class-A addresses from the like of IBM,
AT&T and HP and making them use pukka internal addresses for inside
the firms?

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