IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit

Sun Feb 24 21:32:06 UTC 2008

On Feb 24, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Stephen Sprunk wrote:

>
> Thus spake "Tom Vest" <tvest at eyeconomics.com>
>> On Feb 23, 2008, at 1:54 PM, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
>>> Rechecking my own post to PPML, 73 Xtra Large orgs held 79.28% of   
>>> ARIN's address space as of May 07; my apology for a faulty  
>>> memory,  but it's not off by enough to invalidate the point.
>>>
>>> The statistics came from ARIN Member Services in response to an  
>>> email
>>> inquiry.  I don't believe they publish such things anywhere  
>>> (other  than what's in WHOIS), but you can verify yourself if you  
>>> wish;  they were quite willing to
>>> give me any stats I asked for if they had the necessary data   
>>> available.
>>
>> Thanks for the information Stephen.
>> In order to be perfectly clear on how to interpret this, it would  
>> be  good to know whether this sum includes the pre-ARIN  
>> delegations, or  just reflects what has happened since ARIN was  
>> established.
>
> The wording of the question and response referred only to "ARIN  
> members". That does not include most orgs with _only_ legacy  
> allocations, but it would include orgs with both legacy and non- 
> legacy allocations.  Presumably, if an org had both types, both  
> would have been included, but that wasn't explicitly stated since it  
> wasn't relevant to the questions I was asking at the time.
>
Not necessarily.  Orgs which are end-users and not LIR/ISP subscriber  
members may have
resources from ARIN without being members.

Owen