[60005] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: North America not interested in IP V6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Tue Jul 29 12:28:17 2003
From: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: "Mikael Abrahamsson" <swmike@swm.pp.se>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 19:27:20 +0300
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>
> Is there any truth to this anyway? Am I too idealistic to believe that
> IP numbers will be equally alotted to APNIC, ARIN and RIPE and that this
> has been the case all along?
>
> I mean, there are certain entities in the US with /8:s and these might
> have a specific advantage, but is this really a country/region thing when
> it comes to open up previously RESERVED space?
>
At least with current practise it´s not. RIRs get /8´s from IANA at
the pace they need them. When the last /8 goes out, then we´ll be
quite close to end of allocatable ipv4 space. Expect that to happen
early next decade.
Pete
