Hi, On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 11:24:51AM +0200, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote:
In terms of IPv4, the little new LIRs have been doomed for a long, long time.
Actually this very much depends on what the little new LIRs are trying to do. - setup a web hosting shop for a few high profile customers? works. - setup a medium-sized access ISP that gives public IPv4 addresses to all customers? fail - setup a medium-sized access ISP that gives IPv6 and NATted IPv4 addresses to customers, using the /22 for the public side of the NAT64 and CGN NAT? -> works! (well, depending on how large "medium-sized" is) - setup a mass-market web hosting shop with public IPv4 addresses for each of a million customers? fail Insofar, I consider our "last /8 policy" to be a success - without that policy, the pool would be fully empty today, and of the cases above, all four would be "fail!". The intention of the policy is to be able to give every LIR a small amount of IPv4 "for the foreseeable future", to ensure that at least some business cases can still be met. If you want to start a business today that needs "large amounts of IPv4 space", put the costs for that into your business plan and see whether it's still viable - business 101, nothing special to see here. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279