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