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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Allocation of IP Addresses
Doug Sheppard writes: > > Can you grow an infinite amount of additional food? > > Yes, you can. That is how people have been able to eat since > the beginning of time. Sorry, but no. Given current technology, there is a finite amount of food available. Even given any conceivable technology, you could not turn more atoms into food than we have on the planet. More practically, during famines in some places on earth, there is sometimes less food than needed. None the less, market allocation of food works pretty well. > > Can you buy more gold than there is on the planet? > > We don't know exactly how much gold there is on the planet. > That's why we still mine it. Virtually all the gold in human hands was mined long ago. Mining adds fairly little to our gold stores. All the gold on earth in human hands, by the way, fits nicely into a cube less than 20 meters on a side, and probably there is not more than a small amount that could be added to that by all the mining we could ever do. > > Can you make more land than we have? > > Sure, keep on stacking. Stacking isn't the question. We have "stacking" for IP addresses -- you can use NAT boxes or firewalls. The question is "how much land is there" and the answer is "a finite amount. The surface of the earth is finite." > Look whats happening with people buying up domain > names just to make a buck reselling them to suckers! So? Big deal. Its a legitimate business. I see nothing wrong with it. > These same people would attempt to do the same with addresses. Again, why is this different from someone buying land and expecting in twenty years that someone else will want it? Perry
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