[AfrICANN-discuss] Re: [technical-issues] Fwd: [ALAC-Announce] ICANN News Alert -- Remaining IPv4 Addresses to be Redistributed to Regional Internet Registries | Address Redistribution Signals that IPv4 is Nearing Total Exhaustion

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Lutz,

you are spot on!

el

on 2014-05-21, 15:47 Lutz Donnerhacke said the following:
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 12:16:46PM +0200, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:
>> why? After all, aren't those ISPs which are lagging going to be
>> suffering more than others by the lack of IPv4 addresses? Personally, I
>> have no sympathy for ISPs that rely on an obsolete infrastructure due to
>> their own lack of foresight.
> 
> IP addresses are the primary ressouce to build an end-to-end communication
> over large distances. If you do not have an IP address in same address
> family your partner is offering, you can't connect to them.
> 
> NAT (especially CGN) is *NOT* a solution. It's the main cause of network
> fragmentation, delays innovation significantly, creates an additional market
> for server hosting, and push users to put their data into (social) portals.
> 
> So IPv6 is a solution and needs to be deployed as wide as possible. IPv6 is
> infrastucture. Nothing less and nothing more. It's a required part of the
> Internet.
> 
> The problem with the IPv4 shortage is, that it stops new companies to enter
> the market of providers. That's a bad situation. It forces the existing
> oligopols to become stronger and stronger.
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