<div dir="ltr">Interesting video, and would be interesting to see an APNIC analysis. +1<div><br></div><div>Would legitimate companies setting up shell companies to get more space for their own uses have been the larger/largest reason for depletion? And/or would we expect that here in AU/APNIC land? Apparently <a href="http://labs.apnic.net/ipv4/report.html">we've just dipped below half our /8 remaining</a>. And appears as though allocation rates are rising (hard to tell from the tiny graph, and no thanks to the huge spike ~2010)..</div><div><br></div><div>Although, 30 x /15 allocation (stage 4 ARIN maximum allowed size) would be ~22% of the remaining /8 if they managed to grab that large of an allocation each time (sounds like they did, or at least the allocation got past ARIN reviewers). Put in perspective for APNIC, 30x/22 is only .18% of our last /8 which isn't anywhere near as big.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Mark Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markzzzsmith@gmail.com" target="_blank">markzzzsmith@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 16 June 2016 at 17:06, Aftab Siddiqui <<a href="mailto:aftab.siddiqui@gmail.com">aftab.siddiqui@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>><br>
>> One surprising thing was that somebody set up 30 shell companies to<br>
>> hoard IPv4 address space before it ran out.<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7FGChQNUtA" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7FGChQNUtA</a><br>
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> Ahan, so thats ARIN's max count of shell compaines. What is APNIC's count?<br>
> or this phenomenon is only visible in ARIN. I doubt that.. or may be the<br>
> same entity registered shell companies in all RIRs.<br>
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</span>It certainly occurred to me that an APNIC version of this analysis<br>
would be interesting, and whether or not APNIC running out of<br>
addresses caused any of these behaviours to occur earlier or not, or<br>
not at all.<br>
<span class="im HOEnZb"><br>
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> --<br>
> Best Wishes,<br>
><br>
> Aftab A. Siddiqui<br>
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