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Re: IPv6 allocatin (was Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting)

  • From: Patrick Greenwell
  • Date: Fri Sep 01 01:26:46 2000

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, David R. Conrad wrote:

> 
> > With 15 POPs spread throughout the US and Europe, and
> > more on the way, with exceedingly non-contiguous space obtained from 6
> > different upstreams, it would benefit ourselves as well as our many
> > providers to have our own PI space.
> 
> I suspect the number of organizations who can claim "it would benefit
> ourselves as well as our many providers" will greatly exceed the number
> of available routing slots before IPv6 comes anywhere close to being
> significantly deployed.

Gosh, doesn't that beg the question: why don't we require the return of
all that wasted space that was delegated to anyone and everyone so long
ago?