[124951] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN IP6 policy for those with legacy IP4 Space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Kaufman)
Wed Apr 7 19:33:50 2010
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:33:11 -0700
From: Matthew Kaufman <matthew@matthew.at>
To: Dave Temkin <davet1@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4BBD14BB.7010907@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Reply-To: matthew@matthew.at
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Dave Temkin wrote:
> There are 117,351,239 domain names registered. If I had to guess,
> there are less than 1% of that total number in IP assignments (not
> allocations), but I don't have the patience to go compile those
> statistics. GoDaddy exists based on volume, which we don't have the
> same scale with IP assignments.
>
And when every entity only needs one IPv6 block and doesn't need to ever
come back for more, RIR revenues will be even lower.
But that won't mean the spending stops... so I'm sure the shortfall will
be made up somehow.
Matthew Kaufman
