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Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit
From: Roland Perry <lists () internetpolicyagency com>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:24:36 +0000
In article <DE1FD436-A60A-4456-9031-C9F4F6D159E6 () eyeconomics com>, Tom Vest <tvest () eyeconomics com> writes
My prediction is that when the handful of mega-ISPs are unable to get the massive quantities of IPv4 addresses they need (a few dozen account for 90% of all consumption in the ARIN region)...I keep reading assertions like this. Is there any public, authoritative evidence to support this claim? If there is, is this 90% figure a new development, or rather the product of changes in ownership (e.g., MCI-VZ-UU, SBC-ATT, etc.), changes in behavior (a run on the bank), some combination of the two, or something else altogether?
I would not be surprised to learn that "consumption in the ARIN region" includes all the legacy assignments. So the quoted metric may well be true, but as unhelpful as claiming that "MIT has more address space than the whole of China" (as some people do from time to time).
In the current context, just because they have received large allocations in the past, does not mean these few dozen ISPs will necessarily need similarly large new ipv4 allocations in future.
Operational comment: Look on the bright side, they may follow Comcast's example and deploy ipv6 instead!
-- Roland Perry
Current thread:
- RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit, (continued)
- RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Raymond Macharia (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Iljitsch van Beijnum (Feb 20)
- RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit michael.dillon (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Leo Vegoda (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Geoff Huston (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Owen DeLong (Feb 19)
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- RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit John Lee (Feb 18)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Adrian Chadd (Feb 18)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Stephen Sprunk (Feb 21)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Tom Vest (Feb 21)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Roland Perry (Feb 22)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Randy Bush (Feb 22)
- RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Leslie Nobile (Feb 27)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Randy Bush (Feb 27)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Member Services (Feb 29)
- RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit michael.dillon (Feb 22)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Tony Finch (Feb 22)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Roland Perry (Feb 22)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Iljitsch van Beijnum (Feb 22)
- RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit michael.dillon (Feb 22)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Iljitsch van Beijnum (Feb 22)