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

[Owen DeLong]

On May 13, 2011, at 6:30 AM, William Herrin wrote:

> 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.
> 
Does a rat who has lived its entire life in a cage realize it is in a cage?

Just because they haven't actually experienced the internet and have been
fooled into believing what they have is access to the internet does not
make the claim any more accurate.

As I said, they don't have internet access. They have a controlled
and limited subset of the features that define internet access.

The internet is a peer-to-peer network where each system has a
globally unique potentially reachable address and can operate
as both client and server. Machines behind a NAT have access
to only a subset of those defining features.

Owen