Is this the new Y2K scam?

[Max Blanco]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org wrote:

> 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 ?

Do kitchen appliances really *need* IP addresses?

If I figure correctly, there are 256^4 IPv4 addresses.  
There are 4.3 billion publically routable addresses.  
(China is a subnet:  Add one billion.  Africa? add another billion.
India? add one more.  Axis of EvilTM? add 100 million.)

Below are listed 6/256 addresses, or 2.34%.
Now, if we got another 18 on this list, then we'd be cooking.

Where did you get it?

Is this the next Y2K scam???


> 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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