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

[Kim Holburn]

On 2007/Oct/19, at 6:05 PM, Kim Davies wrote:

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

Except for the fact that China has much more growth and potential for  
growth just getting people on-line.  What's the percentage of  
households on-line in the US compared with China?  Who has further to  
go - ie needs more IP addresses?

Kim
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