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RE: ipv4's last graph


From: "Tony Hain" <alh-ietf () tndh net>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 09:01:34 -0800

So in the interest of 'second opinions never hurt', and I just can't get my
head around "APnic sitting at 3 /8's, burning 2.3 /8's in the last 2 months
and the idea of a 50% probability that their exhaustion event occurs Aug.
2011", here are a couple other graphs to consider.
http://www.tndh.net/~tony/ietf/IPv4-rir-pools.pdf
http://www.tndh.net/~tony/ietf/IPv4-rir-pools-zoom.pdf

Tony


-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Huston [mailto:gih () apnic net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 12:12 PM
To: Randy Bush
Cc: NANOG Operators' Group
Subject: Re: ipv4's last graph


On 01/02/2011, at 7:02 PM, Randy Bush wrote:

with the iana free pool run-out, i guess we won't be getting those
nice
graphs any more.  might we have one last one for the turnstiles?  :-
)/2

and would you mind doing the curves now for each of the five rirs?
gotta give us all something to repeat endlessly on lists and in
presos.

but of course.

http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/rir.jpg

This is a different graph - it is a probabilistic graph that shows the
predicted month when the RIR will be down to its last /8 policy
(whatever that policy may be), and the relative probability that the
event will occur in that particular month.

The assumption behind this graph is that the barricades will go up
across the regions and each region will work from its local address
pools and service only its local client base, and that as each region
gets to its last /8 policy the applicants will not transfer their
demand to those regions where addresses are still available. Its not
possible to quantify how (in)accurate this assumption may be, so beyond
the prediction of the first exhaustion point (which is at this stage
looking more likely to occur in July 2011 than not) the predictions for
the other RIRs are highly uncertain.

Geoff




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