[125519] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Mon Apr 19 10:23:53 2010
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <4BCC6553.4060202@zill.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:22:53 -0400
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Apr 19, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> Owen DeLong wrote:
>>=20
>> I had an interesting discussion with someone from Registration =
Services at ARIN today.
>>=20
>> 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.
>>=20
>> 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.
>=20
> 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.
You and I have vastly different definitions of "trivial".
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
