An anonymous reader writes "The most comprehensive scan of the entire internet for several decades 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, it it time to reclaim those unused address before the IPv6 crunch?"
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Professor Heidemann (and any other university researchers):
As a former member of the education sector as a student and seeker of knowledge, I would like to thank you for your hard work in these areas. I deeply respect your field and the things you do to further human knowledge.
However, please stop finding new ways to stall out IPv6. We're not going to get to it any faster if we keep finding more and more patch solutions for IPv4.
Thank you, and keep up the good work, but preferably in other areas of comput
Why go to all the trouble, when you won't quite triple the short time until the addresses run out? That's what, an extra 3-5 years or so? AIUI the problem with IPv6 isn't time, it's disinterest. Adding more time would just prolong the disinterest and not actually help anything.
A real use of the "pleasestop" tag (Score:1)
Professor Heidemann (and any other university researchers):
As a former member of the education sector as a student and seeker of knowledge, I would like to thank you for your hard work in these areas. I deeply respect your field and the things you do to further human knowledge.
However, please stop finding new ways to stall out IPv6. We're not going to get to it any faster if we keep finding more and more patch solutions for IPv4.
Thank you, and keep up the good work, but preferably in other areas of comput
Why? (Score:2)