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

[Kim Davies]

Quoting Kim Holburn on Friday October 19, 2007:
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| 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. 

Yes, there is a disproportionate amount of IP space allocated to the US
due to historic A-class allocations, but that does not mean there is a
lack of equity in access to address space. All newly assigned address
space is allocated equally regardless of region.

The historic class-A allocations are largely unused and trapped within
a very small group of organisations that are largely not inclined for
growth (i.e. entities like MIT and Ford, not entities like Comcast
which are growing at a rate of knots). This is not a pool of readily
utilisable space that is available for assignment.

So, in essence, China can get more IPv4 address space no differently
than the US can. Until of course it runs out.

kim