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Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 23:14:24 +0200
On 7-jul-2005, at 22:03, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
Are there hidden pockets of yet undiscovered address space?
Undiscovered? No.
But unless the situation has changed since I last looked (which is possible), there are some sizeable clumps that will never get used by the people who "own" them, which it has not been practicable to reclaim.
Right.
The tighter the vise, the higher the fence it will be worthwhile to jump to reclaim that space... just like prospecting for oil.
Right again. And like prospecting for oil, at some point you're burning it up faster than you can prospect it.
There are some 45 - 50 /8s assigned to single organizations. Let's assume for simplicity that those can all be reclaimed. That's 4 years at a /8 a month. So far so good. Then there are 40 - 45 /8s in class B space. That means 256 times as much effort to reclaim the address space, or reclaiming about 10 class Bs a day...
Predicting is hard, especially when it concerns the future. But one thing is certain: we live in interesting times.
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- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008, (continued)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Daniel Roesen (Jul 06)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 David Conrad (Jul 06)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Steven M. Bellovin (Jul 06)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Sean Doran (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Edward Lewis (Jul 06)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jul 06)
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- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Jay R. Ashworth (Jul 06)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Edward Lewis (Jul 06)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jul 06)
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- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Jay R. Ashworth (Jul 07)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jul 07)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 David Conrad (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Daniel Golding (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 (OT reminder) John Curran (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Rich Emmings (Jul 11)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Hank Nussbacher (Jul 11)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 bmanning (Jul 11)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 william(at)elan.net (Jul 11)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Hank Nussbacher (Jul 12)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Jay R. Ashworth (Jul 12)