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On 20 feb 2008, at 8:13, Raymond Macharia wrote: 1. Where is the current demand for IPv4 coming from? Plenty of analysis Hm, let's see: mysql> select rir, country, descr, num, day from addrspace where day >= 20060101 and type = 'ipv4' order by num desc limit 5; +---------+---------+-------------+---------+------------+ | rir | country | descr | num | day | +---------+---------+-------------+---------+------------+ | ripencc | FR | 90.0.0.0 | 8388608 | 2006-03-02 | | apnic | CN | 116.128.0.0 | 4194304 | 2007-05-11 | | apnic | CN | 117.128.0.0 | 4194304 | 2007-07-17 | | apnic | IN | 117.192.0.0 | 4194304 | 2007-08-01 | | arin | US | 75.0.0.0 | 4194304 | 2006-02-28 | +---------+---------+-------------+---------+------------+ inetnum: 90.0.0.0 - 90.0.0.255 role: Wanadoo France Technical Role address: FRANCE TELECOM/SCR inetnum: 116.128.0.0 - 116.191.255.255 descr: New Guoxin Telecom Corporation inetnum: 117.128.0.0 - 117.191.255.255 descr: China Mobile Communications Corporation inetnum: 117.192.0.0 - 117.255.255.255 descr: NIB (National Internet Backbone) AT&T Internet Services SBCIS-SBIS-6BLK (NET-75-0-0-0-1) 75.0.0.0 - 75.63.255.255 Answer: ISPs/telcos. 2. Can the new demand be steered towards IPv6 therefore slow down IPv4 Well, you could give IPv6 instead of IPv4 but only if they can talk to the rest of the world over IPv6. So everyone who has IPv4 today would have to add IPv6, but if they were prepared to do that, running out of IPv4 space wouldn't be an issue in the first place. Also, who cares about /16s? We currently have 16848 /16s left and we're using up approximately 8 - 9 of them each day. Postponing the inevitable by 3 hours really isn't all that useful... Can we please finish off the remaining IPv4 address space already so we can get on with our lives?
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