On Feb 1, 2011, at 8:05 PM, George Herbert wrote:
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:46 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:09:50 GMT, John Curran said:
We had a small ramp up in December (about 25% increase) but that is within reasonable variation. Today was a little different, though, with 4 times the normal request rate... that would be a "rush".
Any trending on the rate of requests for IPv6 prefixes?
More interesting would be re-requests - organizations exhausting an initial allocation and requiring more. People asking for the first one just indicates initial adoption rates.
Other than experimental blocks, I am generally under the impression that IPv6 allocations are designed to avoid that being necessary for an extended period of time. If that is not true, then that's a flag.
There are definitely policy changes needed in order to make this true. I doubt that there are many network operators that have deployed enough IPv6 to be up against that wall yet. I know of only one. ARIN Policy Proposal 121 is intended to improve that situation significantly and also reduce the probability for human-factors related outages in the future in IPv6. Owen