>>> During early phase of free pool exhaustion, when you can't deliver >>> more IPv4 addresses to your customers you lose the customer to a >>> hosting provider who still has addresses left. So sorry. Those will be >>> some nasty years. Unless you're Cogent, Level3 or one of the others >>> sitting pretty on a /8. They'll be in phat city. >> this is a very real and significant problem. a very small fraction of >> the arin membership holds the vast majority of the address space. it >> would be interesting to ask arin to give us the cdf of this. > > It would be nice if it was that simple. Those /8's arise from legacy > assignments that fall more or less directly under IANA without any > form of agreement in place that could allow policy change. Barring > government action, they're effectively the unrecoverable property of > those organizations. They can even act as mini-registries and auction > addresses off to the highest bidder if they're so inclined.\
and this prevents producing a cdf exactly how? randy
