[arin-ppml] Statistics regarding NRPM 8.3 Transfers to date

Owen DeLong owen at delong.com
Mon May 2 23:16:52 EDT 2011


On May 2, 2011, at 7:32 PM, Matthew Kaufman wrote:

> On 5/2/2011 6:59 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> On May 2, 2011, at 5:07 PM, Matthew Kaufman wrote:
>> 
>>> On May 2, 2011, at 4:33 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Heaven help the internet if we ever get to a point where /24s are no longer accepted. The number
>>>> of organizations that would be immediately disenfranchised by such a move would be
>>>> devastating.
>>> Unless of course the people running ISPs were smart enough to figure out how to allow old /24s and not allow new /24s using some sort of well-maintained database... or otherwise apply market pressure against people trying to break up large blocks into many small blocks.
>>> 
>>> Matthew Kaufman
>> Given the abilities demonstrated by many of the ISPs I've subscribed to or had to accept
>> service from, my confidence in this meaningfully happening is, well, very low.
>> 
> 
> Then they'll be the ones who run out of BGP table space and have their routers crash. The ones who want their routers to stay up will improve their practices.
> 
> Matthew Kaufman
> 
> ps. Most of the ISPs you don't have confidence in *also* don't have IPv6 support yet either

Why do you think I'm only using them for layer 2 transport these days.

Owen




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