On Mar 31, 2011, at 6:14 PM, "Joao C. Mendes Ogawa" <jonny.og...@gmail.com> wrote:
> FYI > > --Jonny Ogawa > > ----- Forwarded message from Stephen H. Inden ----- > > From: Stephen H. Inden > Subject: IPv4 Address Exhaustion Effects on the Earth > Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 00:19:08 +0200 > To: Global Environment Watch (GEW) mailing list > X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) > X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 > List-Id: "GEW mailing list." > > > IPv4 Address Exhaustion Effects on the Earth > > By Stephen H. Inden > April 1, 2011 > > At a ceremony held on February 3, 2011 the Internet Assigned Numbers > Authority (IANA) allocated the remaining last five /8s of IPv4 address > space to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). With this action, > the free pool of available IPv4 addresses was completely depleted. > > Since then, several scientists have been studying the effects of this > massive IPv4 usage (now at its peak) on the Earth. > > While measuring electromagnetic fields emanating from the world's > largest IPv4 Tier-1 backbones, NASA scientists calculated how the IPv4 > exhaustion is affecting the Earth's rotation, length of day and > planet's shape. > > Dr. Ron F. Stevens, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, said all > packet switching based communications have some effect on the Earth's > rotation. It's just they are usually barely noticeable. Until now. > > "Every packet affects the Earth's rotation, from a small ping to a > huge multi-terabyte download. The problem with IPv4 is its variable > length header and tiny address space that can cause an electromagnetic > unbalance on transmission lines. The widespread adoption of Network > Address Translation (NAT) on IPv4 networks is making the problem even > worse, since it concentrates the electromagnetic unbalance. This > problem is not noticeable with IPv6 because of its fixed header size > and bigger 128 bits address space", Dr. Stevens said. > > Over the past few years, Dr. Stevens has been measuring the IPv4 > growing effects in changing the Earth's rotation in both length of > day, as well as gravitational field. When IPv4 allocation reached its > peak, last February, he found out that the length of day decreased by > 2.128 microseconds. The electromagnetic unbalance is also affecting > the Earth's shape -- the Earth's oblateness (flattening on the top and > bulging at the Equator) is decreasing by a small amount every year > because of the increasing IPv4 usage. > > The researcher concluded that IPv4 usage has reached its peak and is > causing harmful effects on the Earth: > > "IPv4 is, indeed, harmful. Not only 32 bits for its address space has > proven too small and prone to inadequate solutions like NAT, it is now > clear that its electromagnetic effects on the Earth are real and > measurable." > > The solution? > > "I'm convinced that the only permanent solution is to adopt IPv6 as > fast as we can", says Dr. Stevens. > > -- > It's all true. Alse I've been weighing my router and it's 7 lbs heavier with the addition of all these new ip addresses in it's routing table. -wil
