[70317] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New IANA allocations to RIPE NCC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Erik Lindqvist)
Sat May 8 05:56:14 2004
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0405071702420.11702-100000@sokol.elan.net>
Cc: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>,
North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>
Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 11:54:35 +0200
To: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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On 2004-05-08, at 03.30, william(at)elan.net wrote:
> I imagine so, but the question is are they growing so fast with new ip6
> allocations. As I understand there are about 3500 LIRs/members at RIPE.
> Given that each /23 is enough for 64 members and they have just
> received
> 16 of these, that would make it enough space for 1024
> ISPs/LIRs/members.
> Since IANA assigns ip blocks based on RIR need for next year that
> makes it
> appear that RIPE is expecting that 1/3 of its LIRs would request and
> start
> using IP6 within next year. I personally question these expectations
> given
> current still slow growth of ip6.
A /32 is only enough for 65536 customers. There are people that have
way much more users than that and that are actually planning to use
their allocations. That's the scary part...
- - kurtis -
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