Hey IANNA, why not free up some of the "LEGACY" Class-A allocations (see below) That would free some 650 MILLION addresses!!! Some 15% of the address space.
They allocated more than one/8 per month in 2007, so even if they did recover all 650 million addresses from the allocations you mentioned (very unlikely), it would not buy us another 10-15 years. It would buy us about 3 years assuming the demand for IP addresses doesn't increase.
Reclaiming address space doesn't solve the problem, it just delays it. And it doesn't even delay it by that much.
Yeah I just got the same result with HOOHAA-SLASHDOT.COM. Whois from the command line showed it as available, and after doing a check for it on the networksolutions.com homepage, a whois now shows it registered to them. This is really messed up...
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http://sixy.ch/ also has quite a few IPv6 enabled websites.
Hey IANNA, why not free up some of the "LEGACY" Class-A allocations (see below) That would free some 650 MILLION addresses!!! Some 15% of the address space.
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space [iana.org].
That'll do us for what? Another 10-15 years or so? Plus if the US gov wants to release a bunch too since they are going IPv6.
This whole "OMG! We're going to run out of addresses (and ponies)" scare is starting to be more pathetic and fake than Nostradamus predictions!
Take a read of this blog post to find out what's really happening:
/8 per month in 2007, so even if they did recover all 650 million addresses from the allocations you mentioned (very unlikely), it would not buy us another 10-15 years. It would buy us about 3 years assuming the demand for IP addresses doesn't increase.
http://blog.icann.org/?p=271
They allocated more than one
Reclaiming address space doesn't solve the problem, it just delays it. And it doesn't even delay it by that much.
Yeah I just got the same result with HOOHAA-SLASHDOT.COM. Whois from the command line showed it as available, and after doing a check for it on the networksolutions.com homepage, a whois now shows it registered to them. This is really messed up...
Asa Dotzler, the Director of Community Development at Mozilla also blogged about his thoughts on Mozilla's revenue model:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2007/10/firefox_finance.html
Worth a read.