[147672] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sad IPv4 story?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Perry)
Sat Dec 17 16:32:20 2011
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:27:03 +0000
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Roland Perry <lists@internetpolicyagency.com>
In-Reply-To: <4EE6E7D2.8060306@bogus.com>
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In article <4EE6E7D2.8060306@bogus.com>, Joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
writes
>> So now we will reap the consequences and it will be at the cost of
>> new market entrants (which I am sure will please some people) and
>> perhaps cold hard cash for those who cannot expand their business or
>> have to 'buy' address space.
>
>New market entrants are the customers of existing operators, so their
>plight and the feasibility of being a new market entrant impacts our
>bottom lines.
On the three occasions where I've been involved in running a new market
entrant they were not previously a customer of an existing operator
(other than the founders having an earlier personal online account with
someone or other).
So it's not always a case of an entrant getting started using someone
else's IP transit (and IP addressing), then bringing that in-house.
--
Roland Perry
