Arnt, Look at http://www.nro.net/ for the current process. Look at http://www.ebay.com/ for the process once the IANA & RIR pools are allocated. There are misguided fantasy discussions about controlling the market in the RIR context, but given that their charters explicitly say that they make no statement about the utility or routing of any allocation, they have absolutely no leverage on whatever transactions a market might produce. Look to the CIDR deployment filtering wars to see that the business side of each ISP will beat down the technical side every time, so expect that the routing system will routinely carry /28-29 IPv4 prefixes in a few years.
Tony > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Arnt Gulbrandsen > Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 5:34 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: IPv4 addresses eaten by... what? (was: IPv6 standard) > > There is another question, which isn't nearly as thoroughly discussed. > > Clearly, IPv4 processes are allocated as part of a number of different > processes. Chain X opens the 16001st outlet and wants that to have > exactly the same computer/network setup there as in other 16000. Telco > Y adds another UMTS customer and needs another IP address for that. And > so on, and so forth. > > Once there aren't any more IPv4 addresses (on terms acceptable to the > people involved) these processes have to change in some way. I'm not > interested in _how_ they have to change. My question now is instead: > What are the processes that are responsible for most allocation at the > moment? Has anyone surveyed that? > > Arnt > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
