On Sat, 20 May 2000, "HANSEN CHAN" wrote:
Can someone point me to some documents/weblink on how many class B addresses are still available? Have the registries like RIPE/ARIN/APRIN exhausted class B addresses already? IPv6 Forum presentations have me believed class B addresses are exhausted and the situation is especially bad for country like China. However, after checking with some Chinese I was told just the opposite. So I am wondering is address scarcity just a hype?
My question is what is your requirement for a "classfull" address? With CIDR you can create the same number of addresses out of any of the traditional Class A, B, or C areas. There are plenty of /16 address blocks available. I have no idea of any need a country such as China has which couldn't be satisfied by using /16 CIDR blocks. If you stop thinking in terms of traditional classfull address blocks, I think you find much of the "scarcity" goes away.