wil, maybe after all this time you got the router, it gained 7lbs of all the dust in it ?
Op 1-4-2011 3:26, Wil Schultz schreef: > 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
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