[arin-discuss] Food for thought: IPv4 accountability.
Chris Gotstein
chris at uplogon.com
Tue Jul 21 22:51:37 EDT 2009
I signed up to "beta test" IPv6 on Qwest's network about 3 months ago.
I'm still waiting to connect to them. Thank god for HE's IPv6.
--
Chris Gotstein
Sr Network Engineer
UP Logon/Computer Connection UP
500 N Stephenson Ave
Iron Mountain, MI 49801
Phone: 906-774-4847
Fax: 906-774-0335
chris at uplogon.com
Kelvin Williams wrote:
> I have several uplinks to XO. And they have stated they have no IPv6
> plans to us.
>
> Kelvin Williams
> Altus Communications Group, Inc.
> Office Direct: 678.369.5968
> Office Main: 678.369.5970
> Fax: 866.895.8557
> Mobile: 678.852.4173
>
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> *From*: John Brown
> *Date*: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:43:46 -0600
> *To*: Tony Valenti<tony.valenti at powerdnn.com>
> *Subject*: Re: [arin-discuss] Food for thought: IPv4 accountability.
>
> Who is that “upstream”???
>
> Change providers ??
>
>
>
>
> On 7/21/09 8:42 PM, "Tony Valenti" <tony.valenti at powerdnn.com> wrote:
>
> I'm in the same boat as one of the earlier readers mentioned.
> I think a big mistake that ARIN is making is that ARIN incorrectly
> assumes that we have something to do with making IPV6 a reality and
> managing IPV4 address space.
>
> Just recently I called one of our upstream providers (again) and
> asked them when we would be able to use IPV6 addresses. After being
> escalated all the way to to their Level 4 engineers, i was told that
> they have no plans to implement IPV6 which means that if I put any
> content on an IPV6 address, I can expect at a minimum, 25% of the US
> won't have access to it.
>
> So, assuming that the upstream providers like ours just simply don't
> care, and in a few years there is a black market for IPV4 address
> space because the internet is officially out, what will you do? As
> a webhosting company, we have no choice but to pay whatever the
> black market price for IPs is or go out of business/quit accepting
> customers.
>
> If I sound unhappy, it is because I am. ARIN continually emphasizes
> the problem of depleting IPV4 but never offers or enforces anything
> to fix the problem - they just make the current process harder.
> ARIN is a doomsday prophet powerless to change the fate that we all
> will endure.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:26 PM, John Brown <john at citylinkfiber.com>
> wrote:
>
> I’ll ask the age old question again.
>
> What legal right does ARIN have to tell Apple to do anything?
> If Apple got the space pre-ARIN and the rules where different
> then, what gives ARIN the ability to enforce rules today.
>
> Its contracts law.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 7/21/09 8:14 PM, "Chris Gotstein" <chris at uplogon.com> wrote:
>
> I would agree. Us small guys don't want to get to a point
> where the big
> guys are holding available IP address space over our heads
> for a fee.
> Those companies aren't just going to start dealing with
> every small ISP
> that comes along asking for address space.
>
> We've gone through the process of getting our initial IP
> space and also
> requesting additional IP space. We were successful on both
> attempts
> because we could prove we needed the space. We also have an
> IPv6 block
> and already have it implemented on our routers. But at this
> time, the
> only way you can run IPv6 is dual stack, i don't see us
> running pure
> IPv6 for a long time to come.
>
> ARIN needs to step in and start dealing with these large,
> mostly unused
> blocks of IP address space. A working group would be a good
> start, or
> maybe it's just a matter of asking for justification from
> each of these
> companies. ARIN has the right to poll current block holders
> of address
> space on justification, why can't they do the same on these
> large
> blocks? If HP and Apple can show they are using 80% or more
> of their
> block, then they can keep it and we move on. If not, then
> they should
> break up their blocks, and return the un-used space to ARIN.
>
>
> --
> Chris Gotstein
> Sr Network Engineer
> UP Logon/Computer Connection UP
> 500 N Stephenson Ave
> Iron Mountain, MI 49801
> Phone: 906-774-4847
> Fax: 906-774-0335
> chris at uplogon.com
>
> Kelvin Williams wrote:
> > Whoa, whoa, whoa.
> >
> > I'm sure I represent several others facing the depletion
> of IPv4. Our Broadband division services residential and SMB
> DOCSIS and DSL subscribers.
> >
> > In a perfect world we would be servicing savvy subscribers
> running Linux or current versions of Windows that support
> IPv6, and the majority of web destinations were running IPv6.
> >
> > I can't implement NAT for our subscribers given that NAT
> can cause problems for some of the services (VoIP, VPNs,
> etc) in use today.
> >
> > So, if I'm reading this right, folks like me who are
> protecting what blocks we manage from excess waste and
> paying for every block, will now be at the mercy of these /8
> holders who may be utilizing a tiny portion of the blocks
> they are assigned when the "transfer market" comes into play.
> >
> > Lovely, I can't wait until I'm paying $100 a year per IPv4
> address because they can go for that.
> >
> > I think instead of talking on these lists that there
> should be a steering group developed to address the real
> issues. Forcing Apple, HP and the DoD to implement IPv6 NOW
> freeing up those blocks. If they can't, they need to pay. In
> my opinion, especially when looking at the DoD most of their
> networks aren't accessed by the general public, so they can
> transition versus the ISPs of the world dealing with users
> still running Windows 98.
> >
> > Additionally the group could reallocate those big blocks
> to the responsible little guy with the aforementioned issues
> without the establishment of a transfer market, and work to
> create a series of large bandwidth IPv4 to IPv6 gateways.
> >
> > (All of the above was written after too many beers at the
> local brew pub--if it doesn't make sense to you, it made
> sense to us)
> >
> >
> > Kw
> >
> >
> > Kelvin Williams
> > Altus Communications Group, Inc.
> > Office Direct: 678.369.5968
> > Office Main: 678.369.5970
> > Fax: 866.895.8557
> > Mobile: 678.852.4173
> >
> > Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with SprintSpeed
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at ipinc.net>
> >
> > Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:58:01
> > To: John Brown<john at citylinkfiber.com>
> > Cc: ARIN Discussion List<arin-discuss at arin.net>
> > Subject: Re: [arin-discuss] Food for thought: IPv4
> accountability.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > If people NEED IPv4 after runout (as opposed to merely
> liking to have
> > some), then a transfer market will
> > exist, and those unused IPv4 numbers of HP and Apple will
> suddenly
> > have a transferable value - and as long as HP and Apple
> continue to sit
> > on them, they lose that money. It's no different than
> charging them
> > a fee to where they then lose money paying the fee.
> Either way,
> > they lose money. The only difference is who gets the
> money they lose.
> >
> > Apple and HP only DON'T lose money if a transfer market
> never forms
> > and that block of numbers never gains value. In which
> case nobody will
> > be bugging ARIN to start charging them a fee.
> >
> > Either way, it works the same.
> >
> > Ted
> >
> > John Brown wrote:
> > > So the challenge for ARIN, is what legal right do they
> have to assess a
> > > fee on Apple or HP (to use them as an example here)??
> > >
> > > When Apple or HP got their space in the late 1980's there
> was no fee as
> > > part of the "contract".
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: Steve Wagner [mailto:stwagner at syringanetworks.net]
> > >> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 5:38 PM
> > >> To: John Brown; Mike Horwath; Nathaniel B. Lyon
> > >> Cc: ARIN Discussion List
> > >> Subject: RE: [arin-discuss] Food for thought: IPv4
> accountability.
> > >>
> > >> If either Apple or HP corporate network sits behind a NAT
> > >> firewall, they do not need the address space you speak
> about,
> > >> i.e. 40 million. In this regard may charging those type of
> > >> entities for the address space they use, may result in them
> > >> returning this address space to the allocation pool. This
> > >> would be true for any other end user entity as well that
> uses
> > >> a NAT type firewall
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Regards,
> > >> Steve Wagner
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> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net
> > >> [mailto:arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net] On Behalf Of John
> Brown
> > >> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 5:18 PM
> > >> To: Mike Horwath; Nathaniel B. Lyon
> > >> Cc: ARIN Discussion List
> > >> Subject: Re: [arin-discuss] Food for thought: IPv4
> accountability.
> > >>
> > >> I think that the other ARIN RIR's do a better job of
> managing
> > >> the actual
> > >> usage ratios. Lots of US service providers have space
> allocated or
> > >> assigned to downstream customers and those customers
> don't exist any
> > >> more.
> > >>
> > >> The cost for provider X to tightly manage their space is
> > >> higher than the
> > >> cost of them just getting new space. So it doesn't
> happen. I could
> > >> give multiple specific examples, at the risk of putting
> a public spot
> > >> light on those providers. :|
> > >>
> > >> I believe that the early end user entities that got gobs of
> > >> space should
> > >> return the space they aren't using.
> > >>
> > >> Does Apple Computer really need a /8 ???
> > >> Does HP really need a /8 ??
> > >>
> > >> Do both of those entities really need 40 million+ IP
> addresses ??
> > >>
> > >> For the specific issue of why Mr. Horwath can't get space, I
> > >> don't know.
> > >> He fails to articulate specifics and only talks with a
> broad brush.
> > >>
> > >> I do know the ARIN staff and they are reasonable people
> doing
> > >> good work
> > >> under the guidelines they have.
> > >>
> > >> If there is some injustice on Mr. Horwath's allocation
> > >> request, I'm sure
> > >> it can be resolved.
> > >>
> > >> So to that end I'll offer a few minutes of my time to
> privately work
> > >> with him on his allocation request and see if it passes
> > >> muster and what
> > >> may need to be done to help it float.
> > >>
> > >>> -----Original Message-----
> > >>> From: arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net
> > >>> [mailto:arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net] On Behalf Of
> Mike Horwath
> > >>> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 3:48 PM
> > >>> To: Nathaniel B. Lyon
> > >>> Cc: ARIN Discussion List
> > >>> Subject: Re: [arin-discuss] Food for thought: IPv4
> accountability.
> > >>>
> > >>> Hi.
> > >>>
> > >>> This issue and scare of IPv4 going away, running out of
> > >>> space, I hear rice cakes are tasty - has been going on for
> > >>> way too long.
> > >>>
> > >>> I started my first ISP in 1993 and was told then that I
> > >>> needed to be stingy with my allocation. 16 years
> later, same
> > >>> mantra, same boys with their toys who don't want to
> share the pool.
> > >>>
> > >>> The issues of accountability go back to the mid/late-1990s
> > >>> when it was posed that companies/institutions/government be
> > >>> held to the same standards as joe schmoe consumer of
> > >>> netblocks. Search the mailing list archives, I am sure you
> > >>> will find commentary in regular spats.
> > >>>
> > >>> This isn't going to change, unfortunately.
> > >>>
> > >>> The old boys club is just that: a club of old boys who have
> > >>> benefits for themselves. They even have a sign on their
> > >>> clubhouse that states 'No Girlz'. (the rest of us are the
> > >>> girlz if that wasn't obvious)
> > >>>
> > >>> BUT: you too can join the club: just rewind time by
> about 20
> > >>> years, get in on the ground floor 'IP Address Give Away'
> > >>> stock offering.
> > >>>
> > >>> Or do what others do, buy larger netblock holding
> companies: PROFIT
> > >>>
> > >>> If I sound a little bitter, I apologize. The playing field
> > >>> should be level when it comes to this resource. It
> never has
> > >>> been. I don't think it ever will be.
> > >>>
> > >>> I said it, you read it, I can't take it back.
> > >>>
> > >>> --
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