[147412] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sad IPv4 story?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Blackman)
Fri Dec 9 15:58:19 2011
From: Mark Blackman <mark@exonetric.com>
In-Reply-To: <0FCEFA7E-C7E6-4AEC-B72C-755CF3228E8E@queuefull.net>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 20:57:22 +0000
To: Benson Schliesser <bensons@queuefull.net>
Cc: NANOG Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 9 Dec 2011, at 20:47, Benson Schliesser wrote:
>=20
> On Dec 9, 2011, at 1:07 PM, Fred Baker wrote:
>=20
>> On Dec 9, 2011, at 10:37 AM, Franck Martin wrote:
>>=20
>>> I just had a personal email from a brand new ISP in the Asia-Pacific =
area desperately looking for enough IPv4 to be able to run their =
business the way they would like=85
>>>=20
>>> This is just a data point.
>>=20
>> We're going to be hearing a lot more of these. It's the nature of =
finite resources, and of human nature when faced with them. At some =
point, this will find its way into courtrooms under the rubric of a =
barrier to entry. It already has in terms of antitrust when a company =
wanted to move its PA prefix to different upstream.
I've had transit service pulled, so the provider can reclaim the /21 =
that was bundled with the transit.
- Mark
