[arin-ppml] Taking back UNUSED addresses.

William Herrin bill at herrin.us
Fri Sep 12 16:06:45 EDT 2008


On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell at ufp.org> wrote:
>> Number of addresses announced to Internet:                   1916473632
>>     Equivalent to 114 /8s, 59 /16s and 17 /24s
>>     Percentage of available address space announced:               51.7
>>     Percentage of allocated address space announced:               62.8
>>     Percentage of available address space allocated:               82.3
>>     Percentage of address space in use by end-sites:               73.5
>
> So globally around the world 19.5% (82.3 - 62.8) of all space that
> has been allocated is not routed on the public Internet.

The way I read this is .823 * .628 = .517

In other words, 100 - 62.8 = 37.2% of allocated space is not routed on
the public Internet.

Regards,
Bill Herrin



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