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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."
Also, the Iraqi Information Minister has once again emphasized that there are NO American tanks or forces in the city of Baghdad.
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However, there is an overabundance of users.
"There is no IP addresses shortage. We have more than 300 spare class A networks." - Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
The US has no shortage of IP. Perhaps they could borrow some from us...
Oh, wait - you meant *internet protocol* and not *intellectual property*...
Nevermind...
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Most of it is just pirated. You can buy Windows XP for $5 in Hong Kong! God bless capitalism.
No, it's the third sort - it's FUD being spread by $CO (no doubt in conjunction with Micro$oft), who are claiming ownership of Asia's IP ... address space.
Look, I spelt them with dollar signs, so it's satire!
There was a mixup. This stemmed from an article titled "IP Users in Asia are Short"
I was so saddened by this story that I have started taking up a collection in the office. So far I've collected more than 500 IP addresses to send not counting an entire block of 10.100.x.x
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APNIC is just a letter switch away from PANIC. Not exactly an organization I'd put a lot of faith in... :)
Asia is a hopeless lie made up by the governemnt to justify military spending. Have you notived that the majority of wars in the past 50 years have been fought in this mythological continent?
It's quite obvious that it doesn't exist! Has anyone ever been there? Of course not! Do people come from there? No. We're meant to assume that all these Asians come from Asia. Hence the name. Well, these people are Asian-Americans! They come from America! Ask one next time you meet him. Ask where he is from. He'll say America (Unless you live in Europe or something that is).
As soon as we accept that Asia doesn't exist, we'll be able to free up all the IP addresses that have been assigned for use by the part of the world that does exist.
. . . the patent and copyright lawyers have all the IP tied up in court in the US!
China was about to impose a 1 IP address per married couple law.
"Here, in this remote village in China, some children only get 1 or 2 IP address. They can go hours without checking slashdot. The good news is, you can help, for as little as 1 or 2 IP address a week, this child could troll as often as any other child in the world."
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An example would be the Creation Myth, Greek Mythology, etc.
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You shouldn't be so hard on the big bang myth believers. I'm sure God won't hold it against you too much.
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I still contend that Asia only needs one 1 IP address... then, NAT the entire country. This solves many problems ...
1. They're all communists anyway and if all traffic went through one IP, they'd have better control over their people. Government wins.
2. No more problems with reaching the limit of ipv4. Millions of addresses would be free'd from Asia for the benefit of the rest of the world. The entire world wins.
3. Since most spam originates in China, and if they all go down to one big NAT box somewhere, then we'd be able to eliminate almost all spam by simply blocking Asia's IP address. We all win!
Looks like a win-win-win situation to me... Lets get onto these metrics, shift the paradigms, and leverage the synergy we are presented with.
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I seem to recall much muttering about this being the only reason for buying Compaq.
Well I know I wouldn't buy a Compaq unless it came with a class A network...
Fine, you waste yours like that if you want. When I get v6 every atom in my computer is going to get its own IP.
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