[arin-ppml] Encouraging IPv6 Transition

[William Herrin]

On 5/16/12, John Curran <jcurran at arin.net> wrote:
> On May 16, 2012, at 6:08 PM, William Herrin wrote:
>> Hold on now, ARIN doesn't have 2 million unique organizations all
>> holding direct IPv4 assignments or allocations, does it? That smells
>> at least an order of magnitude off base. 2 million IPv4 registrations
>> I could believe but 2 million unique organizations holding them?
>
>   I said _over the long-term_, please think decades.  There is nothing
>   to prevent parties from holding multiple IPv4 blocks, and in fact, you
>   may have just created an interesting incentive for parties many years
>   from today to seek out IPv4 blocks (i.e. entirely for the preemptively
>   & non-provider assigned IPv6 prefixes which are associated with them...)

Hi John,

I've been talking about a one-shot deal. Get 15,000ish address blocks
out there. Once. Then treat them like any other block held under that
org's registration services agreement.

What are you talking about?

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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