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Comment unethical, contradition, double sanctions (Score 1) 7

by derarief (#30886022) Attached to: Sourceforge Bans the "Evils" from Free Software
Forbidding people from "some" countries to contribute to the cyberspace and participate in the rally of development in this world IS an unethical behaviour !! USA and whoever is behind these ridiculous decisions should not stop us from collaborating and working together; it is not a matter of just contributing to the free software, but is the matter of Freedom; Surely, I don't call to refuse applying the law, but I call everybody who believes in humanity, equality and justice to stand against these biased laws and try to change them, especially when we know that these laws are driven by PURE political matters. Unfortunately, the lawmakers who put these laws are the same ones who are calling for the democracy, freedom and change in these countries, while they are forbidding the people in these countries from practising the minimum of their rights in collaborating with other fellows in this world. Now, people in these banned countries have double sanctions; internal by their government and external by such Laws .. :(
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IPv4 Free Pool Drops Below 10%, 1.0.0.0/8 Allocated 467

Posted by kdawson from the pure-water dept.
mysidia writes "A total of 16,777,216 IP address numbers were just allocated to the Asian Pacific Network Information Centre IP address registry for assignment to users. Some venerable IP addresses such as 1.1.1.1 and 1.2.3.4 have been officially assigned to the registry itself temporarily, for testing as part of the DEBOGON project. The major address blocks 1.0.0.0/8 and 27.0.0.0/8, are chosen accordance with a decision by ICANN to assign the least-desirable remaining IP address ranges to the largest regional registries first, reserving most more desirable blocks of addresses for the African and Latin American internet users, instead of North America, Europe, or Asia. In other words: of the 256 major networks in IPv4, only 24 network blocks remain unallocated in the global free pool, and many of the remaining networks have been tainted or made less desirable by unofficial users who attempted an end-run around the registration process, and treated 'RESERVED' IP addresses as 'freely available' for their own internal use. This allocation is right on target with projected IPv4 consumption and was predicted by the IPv4 report, which has continuously and reliably estimated global pool IP address exhaustion for late 2011 and regional registry exhaustion by late 2012. So, does your enterprise intranet use any unofficial address ranges for private networks?" Reader dude_nl sends in a summary of the issues with allocating from 1.0.0.0/8 from the BGPmon.net blog. "As Alain Durand mentioned on Nanog: 'Who said the water at the bottom of the barrel of IPv4 addresses will be very pure? We ARE running out and the global pain is increasing.'"

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