[arin-ppml] Just a reminder of some quick mathematics for IPv4 that shows the long term impossibility of it

William Herrin bill at herrin.us
Fri May 13 09:30:09 EDT 2011


On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
> On May 12, 2011, at 3:46 PM, William Herrin wrote:
>> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at ipinc.net> wrote:
>>> So how exactly do we get the other 4.5 billion people on the Internet
>>> using IPv4?
>>
>> Survey says: NAT.
>
> That does not put the other 4.5 billion people on the internet.

The half billion or so who've joined the Internet behind NATs this
past decade seem to think differently. Who am I to disagree with them?
Who are you.

-Bill




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