Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch at muada.com>]

On 2-okt-2007, at 15:05, Keith Moore wrote:

> Ray Plzak wrote:
> > The shortage of IPv4 addresses in developing countries in a red  
> > herring.

> that has to rank as one of the most bizarre statements that's ever  
> been
> made on the ietf list.

Yellow herring?

There are five RIRs that serve different parts of the world. Each of  
them will give people pretty much all the addresses they reasonably  
need if they pay the RIR fees (starts at a few thousand dollars a  
year) and maybe qualify for some minimum size.

There may be people who can't afford this, or people who can't afford  
to buy the connectivity to make these addresses useful, but the  
address space in and of itself is not the issue. Point in case:  
China. By the turn of the century, they only had 7.57 million  
addresses of the 1.6 billion in use at that point (as far as I can  
determine easily right now, there may be some differences) but today  
it's 130 million of 2.55 billion.

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