[AusNOG] /16 for sale.... well not really but why not!

Joshua D'Alton joshua at railgun.com.au
Fri Jan 25 18:38:05 EST 2013


I can't find the tool that I used to work it out before, but cutting out
the top 100 AS globally would allow the rest (somewhere around 40k IIRC?)
something like 14x the number of IPs they have currently. I don't know
about you, but that is an insane amount of growth, even in the budget
VPS/DSL worlds.

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Brad Evans <brad at delion.com.au> wrote:

>  Yes, while it's certainly not a solution, you can't say that the
> equivalent of 200,000+ unallocated /24's is of no use to some networks
> right now.  I'd put my hand up for a few more.  This would be another /22
> for every AS, with some to spare.
>
> One could argue that feeding the IPv4 pool removes the incentive to go
> dual stack, but we already have gone dual stack and still have a
> requirement for IPv4 because others haven't.
>
> -Brad
>
>
>
> On 25/01/2013 6:22 PM, Joshua D'Alton wrote:
>
> I had some nice examples of why it would last more than just a couple of
> months, but chrome crashed and it has been gone into enough. It would work
> though for the majority of smaller companies, most of the exhaustion comes
> from the large companies, not the small ones. And its the large companies
> who can afford v6, while the smaller companies cannot so much. You only
> need to look at v6 implementation to see this.
>
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Skeeve Stevens <
> skeeve+ausnog at eintellego.net> wrote:
>
>> Exactly,
>>
>>  So recovering anything, is of no use or point whatsoever as we'd be
>> back in the same position within a couple of months, regardless of
>> justification, price, and so on.
>>
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>>   On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Julien Goodwin <
>> ausnog at studio442.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> I did some analysis of this a while back:
>>>
>>> http://laptop006.livejournal.com/52380.html
>>>
>>> My summary was:
>>> "In terms of the coming IPv4 exhaustion we have 817 allocated /16's
>>> completely unused, for over 5.3M IP addresses, or ~3.2 entire /8's,
>>> giving, at the current consumption rate[6], just under two and a half
>>> months more IPv4[7]."
>>>
>>> On 25/01/13 16:58, Daniel Pearson wrote:
>>> > With all the interest in IP’s I thought it would be good to share this
>>> > little story.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > A while back 6-8 months ago I did some digging and found a spare /16
>>> not
>>> > being used…. Yep that’s right a /16 with not one active resource on it.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I approached the owner who is no longer in business but found the
>>> > administrators and asked if they can release it back to the pool and at
>>> > the same time transfer me a /20. They refused point blank and said they
>>> > would be holding onto it as it could one day be worth lots!
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > After talking with APNIC about it I was told *(verbally) that they can
>>> > hold onto them even if they have no proven use for them…. So I wonder
>>> > how many of these are out there.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > What really annoys me is we are running out and are using every address
>>> > sparingly and here is a company who no longer exists holding onto a /16
>>> > as one day it might be worth something….. go figure.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > How many other examples of this exist?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Discuss!
>>> >
>>> >
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