No more IP for you

Luis Motta Campos luismottacampos at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Jan 22 16:42:48 GMT 2010


Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> 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?

Be my guest. You'll be the hero of a large chunk of the Europe ISPs... ;)

Cheers
-- 
Luis Motta Campos is a software engineer,
Perl Programmer, foodie and photographer.


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