IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit

Sun Feb 24 16:33:05 UTC 2008

In article <A088046F-DA64-4676-9C7B-5313F9145A3C at muada.com>, Iljitsch 
van Beijnum <iljitsch at muada.com> writes

>I'm not sure why exactly you want to know how much space goes to how 
>many organizations

Several days ago, it seemed to me that Stephen Sprunk suggested that it 
would only take a change of policy of a handful of large ISPs (I'm 
carefully using new words here), to think "party's over" and start 
converting their users to 10/8 addresses, and therefore 90% of the 
demand for new allocations dries up.

On the other hand, if the 90% of allocations are going to (large) new 
entrants, and others with a less homogenous or convertible user base, 
the demand might not dry up so suddenly.

>We know that pretty much 10% of the requests is responsible for 90% of 
>the address space. So apparently 90% of the address space is going to 
>at most 10% of the LIRs.

What we haven't established yet is whether this is the same 10% that 
already had 90% of the allocations (from last century), growing their 
empire, or new kids on the block.
-- 
Roland Perry