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.
The decrease over time / address market stuff only applies to the 90%
of requests for very smal blocks that together only use 17 - 20
million addresses per year. Those can be satisfied from reclaimed
address space for years to come.
