[102818] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Thu Feb 28 11:24:46 2008
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>
Cc: "Tom Vest" <tvest@eyeconomics.com>,
"Adrian Chadd" <adrian@creative.net.au>,
"John Lee" <John@internetassociatesllc.com>,
"North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:01:10 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Thus spake "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>
> On Feb 24, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
>> The wording of the question and response referred only to "ARIN
>> members". That does not include most orgs with _only_ legacy
>> allocations, but it would include orgs with both legacy and non- legacy
>> allocations. Presumably, if an org had both types, both would have been
>> included, but that wasn't explicitly stated since it wasn't relevant to
>> the questions I was asking at the time.
>>
> Not necessarily. Orgs which are end-users and not LIR/ISP subscriber
> members may have resources from ARIN without being members.
82% (by number) of all direct assignments are legacy*, and that includes all
of the class A blocks.
While I haven't requested the data to back it up, I find it fairly obvious
that non-legacy direct assignments would be smaller on average and thus
constitute far less than 18% (by size) of all assignments -- and a trivial
amount of space overall compared to allocations to LIRs/ISPs.
S
* Same source.
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