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If IPv4 Were Land: Visualizing Address Scarcity

Original: If IPv4 were land

A new essay reimagines the IPv4 address space as land to illustrate just how scarce and unequally distributed the roughly 4.3 billion addresses are. The land analogy helps readers grasp why block sizes, allocation history and regional assignments matter so much in today's exhausted IPv4 market. Discussion centres on the address shortage and the ongoing, slow transition to IPv6.

Why now: IPv4 exhaustion and the slow IPv6 transition remain a recurring point of debate among engineers

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