IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit

Thu Feb 28 16:01:10 UTC 2008

Thus spake "Owen DeLong" <owen at delong.com>
> On Feb 24, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
>> 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.

82% (by number) of all direct assignments are legacy*, and that includes all 
of the class A blocks.

While I haven't requested the data to back it up, I find it fairly obvious 
that non-legacy direct assignments would be smaller on average and thus 
constitute far less than 18% (by size) of all assignments -- and a trivial 
amount of space overall compared to allocations to LIRs/ISPs.

S

* Same source.

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