high speed DSL connectivity

waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org
Wed Sep 17 02:22:29 UTC 2003


On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 09:53:04PM -0400, Chris MacDonald wrote
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 07:46:45PM -0400, waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org wrote:
> > Part of the problem is that there is a highly artificial
> > shortage of IPV4 addresses, aided and abbetted by companies with a
> > financial interest in the implementation of IPV6.  Thus static IP
> > addresses cost money to obtain.
> 
> Who exactly has a financial interest in ipv6? It's the other way in
> fact, implementing ipv6 would be quite expensive.

  Howsabout computer/networking hardware manufacturers who see the
switchover as the pot of gold ?

Block   Date     Registry - Purpose
-----   ------   ------------------
003/8   May 94   General Electric Company
  GE restricts 3.0.0.0/8 to *INTERNAL USE ONLY*.  They use *OTHER
ADDRESS SPACE* for their internet-facing servers.  WTF is this ?

009/8   Aug 92   IBM
  Why does IBM need 16 million publicly routable addresses ?

013/8   Sep 91   Xerox Corporation
  Have you ever seen any email from this address space ?

015/8   Jul 94   Hewlett-Packard Company
016/8   Nov 94   Digital Equipment Corporation
  DEC was bought by Compaq, which was bought by HP.  So HP now has
*THIRTY-TWO MILLION CONSECUTIVE, PUBLICLY ROUTABLE ADDRESSES*!!!  WTF do
they need them for ?

017/8   Jul 92   Apple Computer Inc.
  Why ???

  All of the above companies would just *LOVE* to see IPV6 rammed down
the throats of unwilling ISPs and customers.

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