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China Lights Pure IPv6 Network
plui writes "An all IPv6 backbone was launched this weekend in China. 'CERNET2 is the biggest next-generation Internet network in operation in the world and connects 25 universities in 20 cities. The speed in the backbone network reaches 2.5 to 10 gigabits per second and connects the universities at a speed of 1 to 10 gigabits per second.' Here is a link to the story in the English version of China Daily, the online news site in People's Republic of China."
You don't need google in China, you use whatever they tell you to use in China.
In the words of Fortune(tm):
We had two stations in the soviate, station one had propaganda, staion 2 had a soviate guard telling us to switch back to station 1.
Why UNIX?
As far as I understand it, the idea that there is a shortage of IPv4 addresses is really a myth. I read a paper that someone wrote that came to the conclusion that even with the current growth rate (exponential) that we would not run out of addresses for another 20 years or so.
/16 please" and expect to get it it. So really I think the non-US countries like to say "netspace is limited" but what they really mean is "sure we can get all the netblocks we want but it requires some paperwork and justification and we're just bitter that old companies back in the 80s were handed out whole /8s for the asking."
I think the real problem is that these days the RIRs (such as ARIN and APNIC) require justification before allocating netblocks. That means you have to show either current usage need or plans for future expansion, or both. You can't just say, "I'd like a
By the way, here is the data I have that shows total number of IP addresses for all netblocks allocated to each country (top 10):
US 1,828,328,425
JP 117,486,311
GB 84,658,624
DE 69,438,200
AU 65,918,741
CA 64,257,591
CN 54,172,684
FR 45,387,299
NL 35,056,078
KR 34,084,629
The source for these numbers was the aggregated data from http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info/