Owen DeLong wrote: > > I had an interesting discussion with someone from Registration Services at > ARIN today. > > The big requests for IP space (the 11 organizations that hold 75% of all ARIN > issued > space) do not come from the server side... They come from the eye-ball ISPs. > The only > /8 issued by ARIN to an ISP, for example, was issued to a cable ISP. > > With this in mind, I don't think there's much to be gained here. Optimizing > the utilization > of less than 25% of the address space in the face of the consumption rate on > the 75% > side simply cannot yield a meaningful result. It really is akin to > rearranging the deck > chairs on the Titanic.
The eyeball ISPs will find it trivial to NAT should they ever need to do so however, something servers cannot do - you are looking at numbers, not operational considerations. --Patrick
