why this is a real mess and v6 may fail (was marketing bs Re: Creating demand for IPv6)

[Randy Bush <randy () psg com>]

> > > During early phase of free pool exhaustion, when you can't deliver
> > > more IPv4 addresses to your customers you lose the customer to a
> > > hosting provider who still has addresses left. So sorry. Those will be
> > > some nasty years. Unless you're Cogent, Level3 or one of the others
> > > sitting pretty on a /8. They'll be in phat city.
> > this is a very real and significant problem.  a very small fraction of
> > the arin membership holds the vast majority of the address space.  it
> > would be interesting to ask arin to give us the cdf of this.
>
> It would be nice if it was that simple. Those /8's arise from legacy
> assignments that fall more or less directly under IANA without any
> form of agreement in place that could allow policy change. Barring
> government action, they're effectively the unrecoverable property of
> those organizations. They can even act as mini-registries and auction
> addresses off to the highest bidder if they're so inclined.\

and this prevents producing a cdf exactly how?

randy