Re: questions about ARIN ipv6 allocation

[John Curran <jcurran () arin net>]

On 7 Dec 2021, at 2:51 PM, Randy Bush <randy () psg com<mailto:randy () psg com>> wrote:

I can't imagine, as a percentage, a significant amount of voting ARIN
members give a crap about what happens with legacy resources.

there are more legacy non-members than total members.  wonder why?

Randy -

While that was inevitable at ARIN’s inception and continued for many years, it is not currently the case that there are 
more legacy customers than paying customers – as ARIN has more than 24000 paying registry customers (as increase of 
more than 500 from a year prior), and only 15233 non-contracted legacy customers.  Even if one doesn’t count the 8000 
or so paying customers who just have an ASN number, the contracted IPv4/IPv6 customers exceed the number of 
non-contracted legacy customers - and the non-contracted legacy customers continue to drop in number by hundreds each 
year while the contracted customers continue to grow.

Note - the same effect is seen with IPv4 address space in the ARIN registry - as of December 2021, total uncontracted 
legacy IP resources now represent only 35.65% of total IP inventory and legacy resources in registry steadily declining 
over time – 638M in Dec 2020 to 596M today (-6.6% year over year drop.)  While some of these blocks do transfer to 
other regions, the vast majority (result of NRPM 8./3 transfer) remain in the ARIN region receiving registry services 
under standard RSA.

FYI,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers