ipv4's last graph

Wed Feb 2 18:11:48 UTC 2011

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vincent Hoffman [mailto:jhary at unsane.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 9:44 AM
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: ipv4's last graph
> 
> On 02/02/2011 17:22, Matthew Petach wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Tony Hain <alh-ietf at tndh.net> wrote:
> >> 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
> > Two things:
> >
> > 1) you'll get better uptake of your graph if it's visible as a simple
> >      image, rather than requiring a PDF download.  :/
> Not wishing to advertise google but
> 
> http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.tndh.net/~tony/ietf/IPv4-
> rir-pools.pdf
> and
> http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.tndh.net/~tony/ietf/IPv4-
> rir-pools-zoom.pdf
> 
> 
> works for me without needing to download a pdf viewer

For some reason that viewer didn't work here, so I added jpg's to the site.
http://www.tndh.net/~tony/ietf/IPv4-rir-pools.jpg
http://www.tndh.net/~tony/ietf/IPv4-rir-pools-zoom.jpg

> 
> Vince
> 
> 
> 
> > 2) labelling the Y axis would help; I'm not sure what the scale
> > of 1-8 represents, unless it's perhaps the number of slices of
> > pizza consumed per staff member per address allocation request?

I thought about leaving it off completely, but figured I would be asked for
scale. It is /8's remaining until they drop into their 'last allocation'
policy. I will see if I can figure out how to fit that into something
readable. 

> >
> > But I do agree with what seems to be your driving message, which
> > is that Geoff could potentially be considered "optimistic".  ^_^;

Geoff has always been the optimist ...  ;0

> >
> > Matt