I don’t understand it either. But I do know we don’t need to worry about this.
If there are 4 billion PUBLIC Internet addresses, that’s certainly sufficient.
The reason being that one internet address can explode below it into a gazillion PRIVATE addresses below it.
And the internet is slowly moving toward IPv6 that will vastly increase the amount of PUBLIC internet space.
I’m now working on a paper for a company who is trying to enable a vastly more secure and better functioning Internet by enabling the users themselves (companies and individuals) to route their traffic with more control — and away from the control of large internet companies (Comcast, AT&T, etc.)
And this will somewhat counter the aim of politicians like Xiden to control us. However, for security reasons, the government will have a back door “lawful intercept” to catch criminals. But not necessarily stop criminals in our government who operate election machines :-(
TY, PP