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Fighting poverty is a noble and often challenging mission. Sizable accomplishments require time, dedication and a good strategy. David Bowden knows this firsthand. The vice president of local nonprofit Give a Goat recently returned from his second trip to the Philippines where he and his wife, Meagan, connected with those who need their help the most. "I have been working with Give a Goat for over two years," said Bowden. "Unlike my first trip, when I only visited for two weeks, this trip lasted three months. We decided we needed to have an extended presence in the field in order to build healthy relationships, gather reliable information, and connect more deeply with those we were helping."
Former Oklahoma Christian University student Peter Cariaga founded the Give a Goat nonprofit on the OC campus in 2006 to teach his fellow countrymen how to raise goats as a sustainable way to provide for their families. Goats are given to the families, providing milk that can be used for food or sold. Goat milk is especially suited for a lactose intolerant population like the Philippines. It can be turned into cheese, yogurt or butter. It also can be used for making soap, lotion and other products. Goat manure is a natural fertilizer that can help farmers raise healthier crops. When goats are no longer productive, they can be sold as meat. Goats reproduce often and families have the opportunity to raise their own herd.
The Philippines is an archipelago comprising of 7,100 islands and has a population of about 94 million. According to the latest U.N. statistics, almost half of the population lives on less than two dollars a day and the poverty rate is projected to grow. "My wife and I lived on Lapu-Lapu. We resided in a small rent house in what is known as the 'firework village.' This village is filled with nearly 30,000 people who supply the Philippines with their stocks of fireworks by making every piece from scratch," explains Bowden. "These hardworking people spend every second of daylight mixing black powder, rolling shells, drying wicks, stuffing mortars, and rolling explosives for around $1 to $2 a day. They live in a perpetual cycle of poverty. Loan sharks give them money to buy their supplies at extremely high interest rates. The workers buy their supplies and work long hours for pennies on the dollar."
The workers are left with barely enough to provide for their families. Many families pull their children out of elementary school to help roll fireworks before they even finish the first grade. "My wife and I knew that we had to do something about this problem, and that giving goats was a wonderful solution," said Bowden.
One worker's story especially struck Bowden and his wife. "We met a wonderful woman named Mary-Ann. She was a hardworking mother of two and was struggling to get by. In between her work with the firecrackers she was doing manicures and pedicures for about 50 cents. Even with this extra income she was having a hard time providing for her family." After about a month of conversations and training, the Bowdens bought the supplies and built Mary-Ann a goat house. "In about three days it was finished. We went and purchased two pregnant females and one male and gave them to Mary-Ann," he recalls. "We told her that she did not have to be poor, and she did not have to be hungry. She now has six goats, can afford more food and clothing for her family, and is on track to send her children to school all the way through college."
The nonprofit distributes goats only to people who are willing to learn how to take care of them. The goats are considered borrowed and families are not allowed to kill them for food or sell them for money. They can keep the offspring and potentially double their income. So far, Give a Goat has distributed more than 1,500 goats and has helped 137 families. The target for the next five years is 10,000 goats, and in 10 years the nonprofit hopes to reach the 100,000 mark.
"It's amazing the difference I've seen even in the one year between my visits," said Bowden. "Give a Goat has boomed to nearly every major island in the Philippines, and each hub is more amazing than the last. Time after time, we heard story after story about how goats are changing people's lives for the better. We saw sons providing medicine for their parents, parents providing education for their children, and families providing resources for their communities, all through the gift of a free pregnant goat."
"These stories are compelling but there are always more families to help than what we have funds available," said Give a Goat's president, Bryan Clifton. He explained one goat costs about $50 and one of the biggest challenges for the organization is saying no to families because of lack of resources.
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After Asia and Europe, North America is next in line to run out of IP addresses.
On Wednesday, the Internet Society, the Rocky Mountain IPv6 Task Force, and others organized "INET Denver: IPv4 Exhaustion and the Path to IPv6." After seeing the same scene play out in Asia in 2011 and in Europe last year, the North American Internet industry seems well-aware that they're next in line to see their access to (almost) free and (fairly) plentiful IP addresses dry up. At this time, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) has 2.44 blocks of 16.78 million IPv4 addresses left. This amount is predicted to last until April 2014.
After some introductory remarks, Geoff Huston, who works at ARIN's Asian counterpart APNIC, got the ball rolling with an overview of the state of IPv6. (The slides he used were very similar to these from November (PDF).) Huston argued that the telecoms industry has "a rich history of making very poor technology choices." This is the same industry that gave us ISDN and ATM—after all, that Internet thing and the packet switching that it's based on would never amount to anything. Huston went on to explain the environment in which IPv6 was created: IPv6 came about in order to create additional IP addresses to fuel the Internet once the some four billion that the existing Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) allows for are used up.
Running out of IPv4 addresses was predicted in some fashion as far back as two decades ago. But Huston showed how despite this, the IPv4 piggy bank now looks extremely empty and it still managed to catch much of the industry by surprise. A big part of the problem was that until now, new technologies always allowed the network operators to save money. With IPv6, that's not the case. Huston talked about several transition strategies, but he doesn't find any that will provide relief before the shortage of IPv4 addresses becomes acute. However, there are ways to slice and dice IPv4 addresses so existing and new groups of users can continue to be connected to the IPv4 Internet. But the network operators that deploy these technologies now have an incentive to protect their investments in expensive equipment.
According to Huston, at some point during the next five years we have to make a choice. We can go down the path of Carrier Grade NATs (CGNs) and put an entire neighborhood behind a single shared IPv4 address. Or, we can bite the bullet and upgrade or replace all those devices (mostly in the last mile infrastructure) that are keeping us from moving towards IPv6. "And it's not yet clear which path the Internet will take!"
However, it seems that expecting the entire Internet—or even just the network operators providing access to it—to do the same thing is an exercise in futility. Surely there will be many CGNs deployed in the next five years, while the number of people with IPv6 connectivity will keep going up simultaneously. That crossroads will remain a busy place as people have to keep coming back to it and switch paths on an ongoing basis.
Huston finished with a few observations, including his belief that addresses should be used not hoarded. This brings us to the "Evaluation of Current Transfer Market" panel discussion. We've covered address trading before. Since then, it has become possible to transfer IPv4 addresses between ARIN and APNIC. A few blocks have been transferred from North American holders to organizations in Asia and the Pacific. The inter-region address trading can only happen when the two regions have compatible policies, which is currently not the case between ARIN and the RIPE NCC in Europe. That may or may not change, depending on the policy proposals that will be adopted by the RIPE NCC in the near future.
Two representatives from companies that facilitate address transfers were also part of the panel, and both advocated for fewer rules getting in the way of address transfers. ("IPv4 isn't exhausted, it's not even tired!") Interestingly, the five Regional Internet Registries aren't in charge of their own policies: these are created through a community-based policy development mechanism. Unfortunately, any adverse results, such as the creation of lots of small address blocks, affect the entire world.
After all the address trading discussions, Time Warner Cable's Lee Howard talked about the total cost of ownership (TCO) of CGN and IPv6. CGNs aren't cheap, and they break some applications leading to support calls. But these two costs are dwarfed by another undesired result: if their favorite application no longer works, some users may terminate their contract. As a result, the costs of deploying CGN are dominated by the lost revenue of customers that leave because CGN breaks their applications. Running IPv6 alongside IPv4 ("dual stack") requires new software and, for many users, a new cable or ADSL modem. The addition of IPv6 doesn't break anything, so there's no lost revenue. But again, it also doesn't solve the shortage of IPv4 addresses in the short term.
Last but not least, there's the option of buying IPv4 addresses. Howard calculated that there's roughly half a billion abandoned or unused IPv4 addresses. These may enter the market with prices between $9 and $12 per address. Another half a billion may be underutilized and become available for between $9 and $16. Considering the costs of CGN deployment and/or dual stack, being able to buy IPv4 addresses for these prices would be attractive for ISPs. However, if that starts happening on a large scale, the unused and underutilized IPv4 addresses will still be used up by 2017. After that, IPv4 addresses would have to be bought for as much as $100 or more per address. That is simply untenable for ISPs.
We spoke with Richard Jimmerson, now IPv6 expert at the Internet Society but formerly at ARIN, who thinks we'll see the results of both good and bad planning in upcoming years. "Businesses that planned well will continue to grow without hiccups. The ones that planned badly will see hiccups with ongoing business new services. However, it's unknown how much of this we'll see on the outside." Unlike Huston, Jimmerson thinks we've already passed the fork in the road. "I believe the industry will do the right thing and deploy IPv6. If you'd asked five years ago, you'd have gotten a completely different answer. But people are onboard with IPv6 now."
Even if IPv4 is going to be around for many years, at some point, the old protocol may only be a shadow of its former self. "There are going to be reasons to do IPv6 earlier than expected," Jimmerson said. "For instance, IPv4 may be so spaghetti-strapped that performance is worse than IPv6." Spaghetti-strapped in this sense means being overprovisioned, so too many users have to share IPv4 resources with too much NAT and too many Band-Aids to be useful. At that point, IPv4 is nothing more than a legacy technology. But, Jimmerson noted, "I wish more energy went into IPv6 and less into making CGN work."
Unlike the last two years, the Internet Society won't be organizing an event like World IPv6 Day orWorld IPv6 Launch in 2013. As for the future, "it's up to industry players" to decide what possible future IPv6-related Web-wide events will entail.
If anything, INET Denver demonstrated once again that there are no easy answers when it comes to running out of limited resources. But—we can't avoid the question forever.

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