[arin-discuss] Good Stewardship by example

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

Scott Morris wrote:

> The overall problem is that it seems to have been much easier for the 
> large players to obtain IPv4 addresses.  These are the same large 
> players who appear to be thoroughly unmotivated to even run IPv6 on 
> their networks, and yet they are the upstream providers for the smaller 
> players who are getting beaten to death with these policy shifts.
> 

Of course it's easier.  It's like the old joke about the refrigerator 
repairman. It's easier because they do this all the time and they have 
their operation setup to integrate everything that's needed when IP 
request time comes around.  So when request time comes around all the 
information is right there and all they have to do is push a button and 
the request is fully generated and off it goes to ARIN.

Of course, OTOH, once IPv4 runout happens and ARIN isn't handing out 
IPv4 anymore, these large players will be up a creek.  Their burn rate 
is far too high to be satisfied by scrabbling around the Internet 
looking for unused small IPv4 blocks here and there that they can buy up 
at garage sales.

Ted