[102637] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Sat Feb 23 01:13:47 2008
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: "Tom Vest" <tvest@eyeconomics.com>
Cc: "Adrian Chadd" <adrian@creative.net.au>,
"John Lee" <John@internetassociatesllc.com>,
"North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:54:30 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Thus spake "Tom Vest" <tvest@eyeconomics.com>
>> I agree, to a point. My prediction is that when the handful of
>> mega-ISPs are unable to get the massive quantities of IPv4 addresses
>> they need (a few dozen account for 90% of all
>> consumption in the ARIN region)...
>
> I keep reading assertions like this. Is there any public, authoritative
> evidence to support this claim?
Rechecking my own post to PPML, 73 Xtra Large orgs held 79.28% of ARIN's
address space as of May 07; my apology for a faulty memory, but it's not off
by enough to invalidate the point.
The statistics came from ARIN Member Services in response to an email
inquiry. I don't believe they publish such things anywhere (other than
what's in WHOIS), but you can verify yourself if you wish; they were quite
willing to
give me any stats I asked for if they had the necessary data available.
> If there is, is this 90% figure a new development, or rather the product
> of changes in ownership (e.g., MCI-VZ-UU, SBC-ATT, etc.), changes in
> behavior (a run on the bank), some combination of the two, or something
> else altogether?
Most of the orgs in the Xtra Large class were already there before the
mega-mergers started; after all, you only need >/14 to be Xtra Large. Given
how most tend to operate in silos, they might still be separate orgs as far
as ARIN is concerned...
S
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