quietly....

Wed Feb 2 12:37:54 UTC 2011

On Feb 1, 2011, at 11:19 PM, John Curran wrote:

> On Feb 1, 2011, at 11:05 PM, George Herbert wrote:
>> 
>> More interesting would be re-requests - organizations exhausting an
>> initial allocation and requiring more.  People asking for the first
>> one just indicates initial adoption rates.
>> 
>> Other than experimental blocks, I am generally under the impression
>> that IPv6 allocations are designed to avoid that being necessary for
>> an extended period of time.  If that is not true, then that's a flag.
> 
> I don't believe we've had an IPv6 "additional" request yet (but I look
> forward to it happening at some point :-).  I will check and get back
> to the list with the definitive answer.

It turns out we've had a handful of ISPs come back for additional IPv6 
blocks but it was the result of an better understanding of their evolving
address allocation requirements pre-deployment.  

FYI,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN