On Thu, Apr 08, 2010, Joe Greco wrote: > Because a legacy holder doesn't care about ARIN; a legacy holder has > usable space that cannot be reclaimed by ARIN and who is not paying > anything to ARIN. The point here is that this situation does not > encourage adoption of IPv6, where suddenly there'd be an annual fee > and a contract for the space. "ARIN" is incidental, simply the RIR > responsible in this case.
Out of curiousity, I wonder whether the adoption of the internet in the 90s would have occured if IPv4 addresses were allocated, managed and controlled like they are today. Adrian
