Stephen Sprunk wrote:
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
Except the RIRs won't give you another /48 when you have only used one trillion IP addresses.
Keyword: *Another*
Are you sure? According to ARIN staff, current implementation of policy is that all requests are approved since there are no defined criteria that would allow them to deny any. So far, nobody's shown interest in plugging that hole in the policy because it'd be a major step forward if IPv6 were popular enough for anyone to bother wasting it...
S
I believe Stephen is thinking of initial allocation policy - because a subsequent allocation policy in the ARIN region exists: (and it's been modified atleast once in the last few years) Justification to obtain another netblock is .94 HD-Ratio in the current allocation Endusers (minimum allocation is a /48) For a /48 that's about 72% utilization or 184 /56's assigned/used ISP's (minimum allocation is a /32) For a /32 that's about 37% utilization or 6,183,533 /56's assigned ARIN provides a handy chart: http://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html#six7