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

[Geoff Huston]

At 03:37 AM 4/04/2007, 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.


http://resources.potaroo.net/iso3166/v4cc.html

(Its a pretty crude approach, and it uses the country code in the 
RIRs' stats files as the means of matching country codes to assignments)