[address-policy-wg] Millions of Internet Addresses Are Lying Idle

All,

  Seems that all the hub bub regarding IPv4 address space being
very limited is really not so.  As I and others have advocated
for years, reclaiming unused IPv4 space is needed.

See:
The most comprehensive scan of the entire internet for several decades
 http://www.technologyreview.com/web/21528/ shows that millions of
allocated addresses simply aren't being used. Professor John Heidemann
from the University of Southern California (USC) used ICMP and TCP
to scan the internet. Even though the last IPv4 addresses will be handed

out in a couple of years, his survey reveals that many of the addresses
allocated to big companies and institutions are lying idle. Heidemann
says:
'People are very concerned that the IPv4 address space is very close to
being exhausted. Our data suggests that maybe there are better things we

should be doing in managing the IPv4 address space.' So, is it time to
reclaim those unused addresses before the IPv6 crunch?"

Regards,

Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 281k members/stakeholders strong!)
"Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" -
   Abraham Lincoln

"Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is
very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt

"If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B;
liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by
P: i.e., whether B is less than PL."
United States v. Carroll Towing  (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947]
===============================================================
Updated 1/26/04
CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS.
div. of Information Network Eng.  INEG. INC.
ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail
jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com
My Phone: 214-244-4827