Re: ARIN IP6 policy for those with legacy IP4 Space

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

On 04/08/2010 06:00 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2010, Joe Greco wrote:
>
> > Because a legacy holder doesn't care about ARIN; a legacy holder has
> > usable space that cannot be reclaimed by ARIN and who is not paying
> > anything to ARIN.  The point here is that this situation does not
> > encourage adoption of IPv6, where suddenly there'd be an annual fee
> > and a contract for the space.  "ARIN" is incidental, simply the RIR
> > responsible in this case.
>
> Out of curiousity, I wonder whether the adoption of the internet
> in the 90s would have occured if IPv4 addresses were allocated, managed
> and controlled like they are today.

The growth of the internet since 1992 has occurred under conditions of
gradually increasing scarcity.that scarcity is so normal that people
don't really think about what it's like not to have it.

> Adrian