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On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 06:15:23PM -0500, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 25-jul-2007, at 6:30, Stephen Wilcox wrote: > > >I think the combined effect of these things means > >- we will not be running into a wall at any time > >- availability of IPs will slowly decrease over time (as cost > >slowly increases) > > I have to disagree here. 10% of the requests are for 90% of the 170 - > 200 million IPv4 addresses given out per year. These are going to > large broadband ISPs in blocks of a quarter million or (much) larger, > upto /8. At some point, the RIRs will be out of large enough blocks > to satisfy these requests. Nothing to be done about that. um, so thats consistent with what i said.. in fact it implies only a very small number of organisations need to pay close attention and those are the ones best suited to implementing policy changes to ensure their users continue to have a good service this means 90% of orgs can probably wait and see what the 10% do first.. Steve
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