[LINK] RFI: Dynamic IP-Addresses on Consumer Broadband

[Roger Clarke]

At 10:38 AM +0200 19/10/07, Kim Holburn wrote:
...
>I would think that there are 2 factors here.  One is that it does 
>annoy people running sites with unsupervised content to change their 
>IP numbers around although I would have thought that dynamic DNS 
>would enable people to get around that.  ...

Yes, a couple of them said that too.


>The other is that China has a huge network which is growing very 
>fast and not nearly as good access to IP space as the west 
>especially the US with it's A-classes.  So it could in part be 
>technical rearrangements of IP space.

Ah, a lovely segue away into CIDR and Geoff Huston's projected May 
2010 expiry of IPv4 namespace.  I've already mentioned that to them 
once, and I'm scheduled to re-visit it when I do 'Internet 
Governance' on Mon night.

Excellent, thanks Kim!


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