Re: IPv4 address shortage? Really?

[Scott Morris <swm () emanon com>]

It would be a lot easier to do it by continent.

3 bits at prepend.  We only have 7 of those and Antarctica likely
doesn't need several billion addresses anyway.   Got some leftover for
the United Federation of Planets.  :)   (or whatever other
semi-practical use that may be dreamed up)

You could do the same type of thing with E.164 country code ideas, but
that may be a bit stranger and drive the need for more RIRs along the way.

Scott

On 3/8/11 2:18 AM, George Bonser wrote:
> >      well... not that it gained any traction atall, but given
> >      the actual size/complexity of the global interconnect mesh,
> >      we -could- ease the transition timing by many years with the
> >      following administrative change.  No tricks, no OS hacks,
> >      no changes to software anywhere..  just a bit of renumbering...
> >
> >      recipie:
> >
> >      the usable IPv4 ranges
> >      RFC 1918
> >
> >      Step one:   Invert RFC 1918 to define the global Internets
> > interconnection
> >                  mesh.
> >      Step two:   make all other usable IPv4 space "private".
> >
> >      Serves 2,000,000 million clients w/o changing to a new protocol
> > family.
> >
> >
> > Enjoy!
> >
> > --bill
> And I fully expect that to be done at some point or another.  Country
> takes the entire 32bit address space for itself.  You want to serve that
> country?  Fine, apply for an allocation out of their /0 and route to it
> over v6.