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Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cliff Albert)
Mon Oct 27 17:40:55 2003

Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 23:40:14 +0100
From: Cliff Albert <cliff-nanog@oisec.net>
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On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 04:10:26PM -0500, Andy Dills wrote:

> Technologies like NAT and efforts to reclaim poorly assigned address space
> have a large negative pressure on the increase of IP utilization. As more
> and more "appliances" need IP addresses, people will realize more and more
> that the last thing they want is those "applicances" on public IP space.
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> Does anybody have statistics for assigned-but-not-announced space? I'd be
> willing to bet there will be more and more dead space over the years, and
> in fact quite a bit of "increasing usage" is just churn.

http://www.potaroo.net/ispcolumn/2003-07-v4-address-lifetime/ale.html      =
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This is actually a pretty good write-up about the IPv4 address lifetime    =
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by Geoff Huston. It has some graphs that compares BGP to actually          =
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assigned space comparisons. Makes very good reading about all this.        =
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