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I have always been under the impression that the limited nature of ipv4 is very detrimental for creating infrastructure in poor parts of the world. This might a
by lawfulfalafel 16y ago
I have always been under the impression that the limited nature of ipv4 is very detrimental for creating infrastructure in poor parts of the world. This might actually make large corporations (and more so governments) interested in preventing competitors from rising in foreign lands.
You can afford fiber and all of the hardware to get an isp working? Great. Too bad you still have to pay your tithing for the artificial scarcity of addressing.
- wmf 16y agoI have always been under the impression that the limited nature of ipv4 is very detrimental for creating infrastructure in poor parts of the world. It's not. IPv4 is approximately free today; it's the smallest part of the cost of running Internet infrastructure. This might actually make large corporations (and more so governments) interested in preventing competitors from rising in foreign lands. Yeah, the only thing stopping Africa from kicking the US's butt in technology is a lack of IP addresses...
- lawfulfalafel 16y agoWell, I was talking out of my ass then. I was under the impression that places that had a large set of ip's (such as a few universities and corporations) would make a bundle leasing those to other people when there was more contention for addresses.
- wmf 16y agoThat will happen after the free IPv4 addresses run out in the future, which is why ISPs in developing regions should get as many addresses as they can now while they're free and prepare to adopt IPv6 if it turns out to be cheaper than buying IPv4 addresses.