[ppml] My view on IPv4 (was: Re: IPv4 wind-down)

[Iljitsch van Beijnum]

On 3-apr-2007, at 19:37, Jim Weyand wrote:

> - it's unfair that more than 50% of all IPv4 address space is held by
> US entities which then get to make a lot of money from them, while
> the developing world holds next to no address space and would have to
> buy it from richer countries

> Can anybody document the 50% figure?  When I go to:
>  http://www.arin.net/statistics/jointstats.pdf

> It looks to me like ARIN has only assigned about 30% of the allocated
> IPv4 space.

That's between 1999 and 2006.

I regularly download the files the RIRs publish on their FTP sites  
and generate statistics from them at http://www.bgpexpert.com/ 
addrspace.php

If you go to that page it will tell you the number of addresses  
currently given out by IANA or the RIRs to end-users or ISPs:

2465.82 M

Fill in "US" under "Country" and it will say:

1379.23 M

This means that 55.93% of the address space currently in use is held  
by the US according to the RIRs.