Hi, It seems there is a new trend in RIR-land: mega-allocations. This year APNIC, ARIN and the RIPE NCC have made the following allocations: # whois -h whois 126.0.0.0 whois.apnic.net inetnum: 126.0.0.0 - 126.255.255.255 netname: BBTEC descr: Japan Nation-wide Network of Softbank BB Corp. country: JP status: ALLOCATED PORTABLE # whois -h whois.arin.net 73.0.0.0 NetRange: 73.0.0.0 - 73.191.255.255 CIDR: 73.0.0.0/9, 73.128.0.0/10 NetName: CABLE-1 NetType: Direct Allocation # whois -h whois.ripe.net 86.192.0.0 inetnum: 86.192.0.0 - 86.255.255.255 netname: FR-TELECOM-20050302 descr: France Telecom status: ALLOCATED PA That's a total of 33 million IP addresses in 3 allocations (and as many months). The total population for these three countries is 127 + 293 + 60 = 480 million, so that's an IP address for nearly 7% of those country's inhabitants. If I were a conspiracy theorist I would think that IPv6 proponents are trying to burn up the remaining IPv4 space as fast as they can so we'll all be running IPv6 at the end of the decade. If that's the case: good job! :-) Seriously: what's going on here?
Hi, On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 12:26:58PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
Seriously: what's going on here?
Looks like "serious large-scale broad-band roll out", and unfortunately they are doing it IPv4-only... Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 71007 (66629) SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 D- 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-234
Seriously: what's going on here?
They filled in the forms and justified the address usage? Would you prefer they were using NATs? I'm thinking large allocations of real address space is a good thing. :-) Cheers, Rob
On 25-apr-2005, at 17:54, Rob Evans wrote:
Seriously: what's going on here?
They filled in the forms and justified the address usage?
Would you prefer they were using NATs? I'm thinking large allocations of real address space is a good thing. :-)
I'm sure there are projections that indicate this level of address use in the future for the allocatees in question. But does that necessitate giving out /10 or even larger blocks? At some point, the growth will end. When that happens, it's better that half a /12 remains unused than half a /10. It's not like having /12s in the routing table rather than /10s is going to lead to undue growth in the routing tables... Another look at the data shows that 1M and bigger allocations aren't entirely new: there are currently 80 allocations/assignments of a million or more addresses for a total of 172 million addresses. However, there is a significant upward trend. The number of addresses allocated/assigned in these blocks is: Year APNIC ARIN LACNIC RIPENCC Total 2000 1.05 9.44 0.00 2.10 12.58 2001 8.39 10.49 0.00 4.19 23.07 2002 11.53 4.78 0.00 6.29 22.61 2003 12.58 4.19 1.05 10.49 28.31 2004 15.73 9.76 1.05 11.93 38.47 2005 16.78 14.02 0.00 16.19 46.99 (That's right: we're already well past last year before the end of april.)
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