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IP Shortage In Asia Just Myth, Says APNIC
rekkanoryo writes "News.com is carrying a story in which the Director General of APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) says that the "shortage" of IP addresses in Asia is a total myth. There's also some talk of IPv6 in this article."
...the used-up IPs by getting rid of their spammers.
Why don't you fuck yourself? Your posting is such a blatant troll, i can't believe. If you use a shitty service provider which is unwilling to provide you with more than one ip address on documented need, than this is complete and in whole your own problem. Just change the company you use.
Currently over 40% of the global address space is unallocated, and freeing allocated but unused ip space would make even more addresse available. We don't have a shortage of ip addresses, we are not even in the near of the end of free addresses.
And for your other nonsense: RIRs like APNIC, RIPE, ARIN don't make money from allocating ip addresses. For example RIPE will allocate as much ip addresses as you can document need to any of its members. Yes, you need to be a member, but this is good, as it prevents joe-shithead-provider from messing arround. Every serious provider can easily get member of RIPE and get the needed addresses for free. And as said, there are enough free addresses left. No need for IPv6. Not today, not tomorrow, not next year. And currently the use of ip addresses is stalling, as technologies like NAT made a lot of ip usage predictions pointless.
I don't see any *intellectual* property in US. There are many properties there, but none are really intellectual. Just look what their goverment is doing regarding so called IP, or better check how is intellectual their president, for example.
Less is more !