They should start a reward program for people to turn in organizations and/or people unjustly camping on class C blocks of IPs. :-P
-Chris On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Chris Penn <cantorm...@gmail.com> wrote: > The address format, known as IPv4, was standardized in 1977 as a > 32-digit binary number, making a then-seemingly unlimited 4.3 billion > addresses (2^32) available. They're all used up. In February, the > authority gave each registry one final block of 16 million addresses. > The regions are burning through them now, and one > region—Asia–Pacific—has already hit zero. Since 1999 the authority has > offered blocks of newer IPv6 addresses that are 128 digits long, > resulting in an unimaginable 340 undecillion possible addresses > (that's 340 followed by 36 zeroes). > > undecillion... > > Reference > http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=global-ipv6-day-internet-test > > Chris... > > -- > "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to > be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." > -Roger Penrose > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
