On the topic of IP4 exhaustion: 1/8, 2/8 and 5/8 have all been assigned in the last 3 months yet I don't see them being allocated out to customers (users) yet. Is this perhaps a bit of hoarding in advance of the complete depletion of /8's? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@latt.net> To: "Jeroen van Aart" <jeroen@mompl.net> Cc: "NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 4:06 PM Subject: Re: legacy /8
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 02:01:45PM -0700, Jeroen van Aart wrote:
I am curious. Once we're nearing exhausting all IPv4 space will there ever come a time to ask/demand/force returning all these legacy /8 allocations? I think I understand the difficulty in that, but then running out of IPs is also a difficult issue. :-)
For some reason I sooner see all IPv4 space being exhausted than IPv6 being actually implemented globally.
Because it's no more than a delaying action. Even presuming you get people to cooperate (and they really, have no incentive to because they don't necessarily have any agreement covering the space with the RIRs) rather than fire up their legal department....
A couple of /8s doesn't last long enough to really make a dent in the pain. You might buy yourself a few months at most.
It might actually do more harm than good, by convincing people that they can still get v4 space rather than worry about what they are going to do in the future.
--msa