"It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM

Michael Hallgren m.hallgren at free.fr
Wed Apr 24 21:12:43 UTC 2013


Le 24/04/2013 21:35, Lee Howard a écrit :
>
> On 4/24/13 2:45 PM, "ML" <ml at kenweb.org> wrote:
>
>> On 4/23/2013 5:41 PM, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
>>> I didn't see any mention of this Tony Hain paper:
>>>
>>> http://tndh.net/~tony/ietf/ARIN-runout-projection.pdf
>>>
>>> tl;dr: ARIN predicted to run out of IP space to allocate in August this
>>> year.
>>>
>>> Are you ready?
>>>
>>
>> Where do the startup ISPs whom didn't qualify for PI IPv4 in the past
>> fit into a post-run out world where they would qualify?
>> I am speaking in generics but also about a real ISP that is in this
>> situation today. 
>>
>> In my example This ISP could show need for a /22 but wasn't multihoming
>> at the time and likely will not until after run-out.
>> How does such an ISP begin to address their backbone and customers
>> facing interfaces without tying themselves to an ISP and their PA space?
>>
>> I don't imagine they will be open to paying extortion prices for IPs
>> that other people never bothered to use.
>
> Once ARIN is unable to meet an organization's justified need, they can't
> get addresses from ARIN.  They can beg, borrow or buy addresses from
> someone else.  They can try AfriNIC's or LACNIC's policies.  They can do
> CGN.  They can do IPv6.

Might be that IPv6would be their currently best bet... ;)
mh

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> Lee
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