Andy,

You've missed the business opportunity here.

If every household pools their 0.7 address each, then Australia and New Zealand will become the only place in the world to be able to HOST ipv4 content.
No longer will we be held ransom to paying overseas transit to see 80% of our content, we'll be able to bill the rest of the world to host their content.

We'll be rich.  

MMC

(Don't fall into the mistake of taking me seriously here).

On 03/09/2009, at 12:15 PM, Andy Linton wrote:


On 2/09/2009, at 19:30 , Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:

For interests sake:

I make that 7,224,736 addresses.

The "Australian Domestic" transit I get in Oz, which includes most of NZ has 43,057,689 addresses in it.

which gives about 1.7 v4 addresses per person across the countries.

So, we just need to shuffle things around a bit, grab some of the space some people are wasting it and we can, together, ride out the v4 exhaustion thing laughing.

:-)

A few thoughts:

That'll be fine until you need to talk to someone outside AU and NZ who hasn't had the luxury and only has IPv6 addresses.

As long as shuffling things around isn't a euphemism for carrier grade NAT!

Clearly those people who are wasting space should be got off the net.

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