On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 04:07, william(at)elan.net wrote: > On Sat, 8 May 2004, Bastiaan Spandaw wrote: > > > On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 03:30, william(at)elan.net wrote: > > > > > My understanding is that they have made twice as many ip6 allocations as > > > rest of the world combined! That is very impressive indeed!!! > > > But its still not enough reason for them to have received more then 10 > > > times ip6 space from IANA as rest of the RIRs combined... > > > > Hmmm.. what about massive amount of IPV4 space assigned to the small > > piece of earth's landmass called USA....? > > Exactly my point!!! We don't want IANA to be repeating now same thing > as was done early in the internet with assignments of legacy /8 and /16s.
Except that comparing RIPE/IPV6 assignment to the early days of V4 assignment is comparing apples to pears... Even today; Getting IP space (or an ASN) from ARIN is x times more easy than from RIPE. ps not that I blame RIPE. I'm dutch, so I cherish being cheap/not-wastefull