[ppml] Policy Proposal: Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address Space

[Leo Bicknell]

In a message written on Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 03:11:42PM -0400, William Herrin wrote:
> What are the current rates of consumption for each RIR? What is the

http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/

Figure Figure 28 is probably the most interesting.  At the extremes,
AfriNIC is around 1 /8 per year right now, where as ARIN is 3 /8's
per year.  Also note that they are projected to grow at quite a
different rate. (I believe this graph is in /8's per month, although
the y-axis is not labeled.  This is based on comparing it with other
graphs on the site.)

Thus giving ARIN 5 /8's would be perhaps 18 months, while for AfriNIC
it would be a 5 year supply.

The more interesting question is what would happen after 18 months.
Would companies that are in both the ARIN region and AfriNIC region
today that may prefer ARIN due to their own history start to make
new requests of AfriNIC?  Do the policies require space to be used
in the region where it is requested? Would they be able to staff
up?  APNIC is actually projected to have the highest need going
forward, might this leave them with less than a year of space when
it comes to pass?

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