Hi, On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 06:14:01PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Maybe it'd be a grand idea to not extrapolate based on current usage trends.
I'm happy to be proven wrong, and see RIPE's /12 exhausted in 250 years, instead of 2500 years. After all, "using up IPv6" is not our largest current problem, "*not* using IPv6" is.
We just don't know what's going to turn up in the future - maybe 20..40 years or less down the line, and would hate to see history repeating itself.
And if v4 and v6 exhaustion were the only reason to care about allocating number resources to rogue entities, I'd not care as much as I do about this.
Then please don't make the exhaustion such a focal topic of your posts. I think we perfectly agree that *criminals* should have taken their address space away, and that's what the NCC does. Now, "criminals" - and this is where we know to disagree - are not folks that send e-mails that other folks do not like, but folks where an instrument of the law has decided "they are criminals" (LEOs or courts). Fake registration data in itself is also enough to withdraw resources by the RIPE NCC (but it's not always obvious at registration time that a working postal address, telephon number, etc. are fake). 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 (89) 32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279