[arin-ppml] Statistics regarding NRPM 8.3 Transfers to date

[Matthew Kaufman]

On 5/2/2011 6:59 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> On May 2, 2011, at 5:07 PM, Matthew Kaufman wrote:
>
>> On May 2, 2011, at 4:33 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>>
>>> Heaven help the internet if we ever get to a point where /24s are no longer accepted. The number
>>> of organizations that would be immediately disenfranchised by such a move would be
>>> devastating.
>> Unless of course the people running ISPs were smart enough to figure out how to allow old /24s and not allow new /24s using some sort of well-maintained database... or otherwise apply market pressure against people trying to break up large blocks into many small blocks.
>>
>> Matthew Kaufman
> Given the abilities demonstrated by many of the ISPs I've subscribed to or had to accept
> service from, my confidence in this meaningfully happening is, well, very low.
>

Then they'll be the ones who run out of BGP table space and have their 
routers crash. The ones who want their routers to stay up will improve 
their practices.

Matthew Kaufman

ps. Most of the ISPs you don't have confidence in *also* don't have IPv6 
support yet either