Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 11:53:15 -0500 From: Jim Fleming <JimFleming@unety.net> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: "freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Free pizza & beer for GCC Guru in or near Berlin Message-ID: <01BB2EAF.F66B4400@webster.unety.net>
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On Friday, April 19, 1996 2:57 PM, Julian H. Stacey[SMTP:jhs@FreeBSD.ORG] wrote: @Hi Joerg, <snip> @I know paying more, getting a fixed IP name/number are an option, but I'd @prefer to stay using my low budget dynamic connection for now :-) @ @I know dynamic IP allocation is not unique to me ... what do others do ? @Any solutions out there ? @ @Julian @ Dynamic IP allocation is a fact of life in the poorly managed IPv4 address space. By forcing ISPs to operate in a very small percentage of the IP address space, ISPs have little choice but to use dynamic addressing. ISPs must view IP addresses as scarce, valuable, and a resource that they do not want to statically assign to individuals/companies. Some ISPs get large blocks and some get small blocks. It is not what you know...but rather, who you know... IPv6 is intended to increase the 32 bit address space to 128 bits. It supposedly will fix all existing problems and also cure world hunger for IP addesses. People disagree on when this cure will arrive. Some people would claim that it is already here. If IPv6 is really "just around the corner", then current IPv4 allocation policies should be relaxed and ISPs should be given the resources that they need to operate efficiently and to provide customers with the services they desire. Either the people that make these policies do not believe that IPv6 is close or they are determined to allocate the fragmented IPv4 address space in concert with large carriers and ISPs in an effort to create a "pecking order" that supposedly is good for the Internet. If you consider the IPv8 approach to solving world hunger... http://comm.unety.net/US/IL/Naperville/Unir you will see that the existing Legacy IPv4 Internet will be used simply as a low-cost bit transport system between the interfaces on the IPv8-based OuterInternet. IP-in-IP tunneling will be used to traverse the IPv4 network which is currently dieing because of poor planning and rapid growth. For IPv8, nothing really needs to change in IPv4. In fact, the dynamic addressing is not a major problem because in many cases sites will only need a small number of IPv4 interface addresses to act as gateways for their IPv8 network. The migration from IPv4 to IPv8 is similar to the migration from cities to suburbs. The IPv4 core (city) can be used for some useful purposes (primarily bit transport) and a new IPv8 OuterInternet can be built around the outside just as suburban areas surround cities. You do not need many roads in an out of the city...and for some people they may not need any city services, as long as better services are available on the OuterInternet. -- Jim Fleming UNETY Systems, Inc. Naperville, IL 60563 e-mail: JimFleming@unety.net
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