There are so many ways climate change and IP address allocation are
different it's difficult to tell if you were just having fun, but the
simplest and most important is this:
With climate change the number of variables in play are so vast that one
could quite plausibly suggest it's the single most complex model humans
have ever attempted.
But the IPv4 address range is a single integer, easily discerned by the
scheme.
People seem to enjoy debating climate change, but there's not much room
for debating the largest value that can be expressed by a four-byte integer.
Unless there's some vast conspiracy between IANA, national leaders,
device manufacturers, and industry analysts about the growing number of
devices in use, any reasonable person can look at the number of devices
and the range of possible IPv4 addresses, and quickly appreciate the
recommendation from IANA that another larger scheme is needed, and soon.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
____________________________________________________________________
ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com
Bob Sneidar wrote:
We were also advised when I was in high school that an ice age was coming, we
would be out of water in ten to fifteen years, the air would be so polluted we
would all be wearing gas masks, nothing would grow so we would be eating dirt
etc. And while I don't deny there are real problems to consider, nothing ever
is as bad as it is originally made out to be. We make the necessary adjustments
to prevent our own extinction and then have a beer or two at the end of the day.
I find myself wondering why the Tier providers can't simply move all their
routers over to use IPV6 exclusively, and leave local area networks the way
they are? Maybe I misunderstand, but why does *everyone and everything* have to
move to IPV6?
Bob S
On Oct 12, 2015, at 10:24 , Richard Gaskin <ambassador at
fourthworld.com<mailto:ambassador at fourthworld.com>> wrote:
But as we've all been advised by IANA for more than a decade, v4 addresses are
in short supply and v6 has been the recommended solution.
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