On 2 mei 2008, at 20:51, Mike Leber wrote:
Since nobody mentioned it yet, there are now less than 1000 days projected until IPv4 exhaustion:
Unfortunately that won't load for me over IPv6, path MTU black hole...
ps. 1000 days assumes no rush, speculation, or hoarding. Do people do that?
Since the only people who can get really large blocks of IP addresses are the people who already have really large blocks of IP addresses, the eventual distribution of large blocks won't differ much depending on whether there will be a rush or not. Obviously the 99% of requests that use up only 17% of the space each year are of no importance in the grand scheme of things. I was about to write that 1000 days is too optimistic/pessimistic, but (after trying to compensate for ARIN's strange book keeping practices) it looks like in 2006, 163 million addresses were given out, 196 in 2007. If the next few years also see an increase of 20% in yearly address use, then 1000 days sounds about right. That means we'd have to use up 235 million addresses this year, while so far we're at 73 million, which puts us on track for 219 million. So maybe it will be 1050 days (which leaves us exactly a million addresses per day). BTW, about the India thing: they should take their cue from China, which only had a few million addresses at the turn of the century but is now in the number two spot at ~ 150 million addresses. (Comparison: the US holds 1.4 billion, India 15 million, just behind Sweden which has 17 million.) China is now the biggest user of new address space. http://www.bgpexpert.com/addressespercountry.php http://www.bgpexpert.com/ianaglobalpool.php http://www.bgpexpert.com/addrspace2007.php (Make it "www.ipv4.bgpexpert..." if you have trouble reaching the site over v6.)