[125518] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Giagnocavo)
Mon Apr 19 10:14:58 2010
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:14:43 -0400
From: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@zill.net>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <476BE53B-722B-4965-B25F-A2110D7B9CAE@delong.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Owen DeLong wrote:
>
> I had an interesting discussion with someone from Registration Services at ARIN today.
>
> The big requests for IP space (the 11 organizations that hold 75% of all ARIN issued
> space) do not come from the server side... They come from the eye-ball ISPs. The only
> /8 issued by ARIN to an ISP, for example, was issued to a cable ISP.
>
> With this in mind, I don't think there's much to be gained here. Optimizing the utilization
> of less than 25% of the address space in the face of the consumption rate on the 75%
> side simply cannot yield a meaningful result. It really is akin to rearranging the deck
> chairs on the Titanic.
The eyeball ISPs will find it trivial to NAT should they ever need to do
so however, something servers cannot do - you are looking at numbers,
not operational considerations.
--Patrick
