[98217] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Wilcox)
Thu Jul 26 06:20:03 2007
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:18:58 +0100
From: Stephen Wilcox <steve.wilcox@packetrade.com>
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: John Curran <jcurran@mail.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <A48D2327-08AB-4132-A22F-AA2AAE42BB05@muada.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 06:15:23PM -0500, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 25-jul-2007, at 6:30, Stephen Wilcox wrote:
>
> >I think the combined effect of these things means
> >- we will not be running into a wall at any time
> >- availability of IPs will slowly decrease over time (as cost
> >slowly increases)
>
> I have to disagree here. 10% of the requests are for 90% of the 170 -
> 200 million IPv4 addresses given out per year. These are going to
> large broadband ISPs in blocks of a quarter million or (much) larger,
> upto /8. At some point, the RIRs will be out of large enough blocks
> to satisfy these requests. Nothing to be done about that.
um, so thats consistent with what i said.. in fact it implies only a very small number of organisations need to pay close attention and those are the ones best suited to implementing policy changes to ensure their users continue to have a good service
this means 90% of orgs can probably wait and see what the 10% do first..
Steve
