{"id":6,"date":"2008-10-15T20:59:03","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T03:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2020-10-19T10:43:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T17:43:10","slug":"imc-paper-on-internet-census-described-in-mit-tech-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"IMC paper on Internet Census described in MIT Tech Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The IMC paper &#8220;Census and Survey of the Visible Internet&#8221; was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/web\/21528\/page1\/\">described in an article<\/a> &#8220;Probe Sees Unused Internet&#8221; in the MIT Technology Review by Robert Lemos.<\/p>\n<p>The article provides a nice summary of the issues, but it reaches a conclusion that is stronger supported by the study.\u00a0 The subhead of the article is &#8220;A survey shows that addresses are not running out as quickly as we&#8217;d thought&#8221;, and the article draws the conclusion: &#8220;the problem [of IPv4 address exhaustion] may not be as bad as many fear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The article&#8217;s conclusion, I think, overly simplifies matters&#8212;it is only true if the &#8220;better things we should be doing in managing the IPv4 address space&#8221; are <em>free. <\/em>The Internet Census we carried out supports the <em>opportunity<\/em> for better IPv4 address space management.\u00a0 But an open question is the <em>cost<\/em> of such management.\u00a0 Historically, with plentiful IPv4 addresses, IPv4 management costs have been small, but <em>potential better IPv4 management<\/em> will likely be much more costly.\u00a0 This cost of ongoing IPv4 management needs to be weighed against the costs of one-time conversion cost to IPv6 coupled followed lower IPv6 management costs.<\/p>\n<p>To me, one exciting conclusion from the Internet Census we carried out is that we now have data that allows us to start evaluating these trade-offs.\u00a0 The answer may be more careful IPv4 gets us a few years, <em>or<\/em> that the cost of more careful IPv4 makes IPv6 an obvious choice.\u00a0 In either case, resolving this transition is important for the Internet community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IMC paper &#8220;Census and Survey of the Visible Internet&#8221; was described in an article &#8220;Probe Sees Unused Internet&#8221; in the MIT Technology Review by Robert Lemos. The article provides a nice summary of the issues, but it reaches a conclusion that is stronger supported by the study.\u00a0 The subhead of the article is &#8220;A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284,282],"tags":[4,7,5],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-papers-publications","category-publications","tag-internet-address-space","tag-internet-measurement-conference","tag-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1672,"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/1672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}