Hi Graham, At 11:54 01-12-2009, Graham Beneke wrote:
Many communities seem to protect their IPv4 resources from outsiders and I still have not figured out why.
There are different service regions and different sets of policies for each region. In general, it is not about protecting resources from outsiders as you look at fairness from a global perspective.
The reality is that at our current rate of resource consumption - we will probably not even have begun using our final /8 when the rest of the regions have completely run out. Why is there a need to so carefully protect our final /8 when the rest of the world is already using IPv6 networks and has already given up on IPv4?
Until we reach that "phase", we won't know whether the rest of the world has given up on IPv4. The real phase begins when the other service regions utilize their final /8. If it is "cheaper" to get resources from this region than to adopt other technologies, that's what people from other service regions might do. This proposed soft-landing policy won't have the any impact as it won't be valid yet. In a nutshell, we do not know what will happen in two years. We do know that IPv4 address utilization is very low for some countries in this region. The desire is to prevent a significant imbalance in the distribution of IPv4 addresses within this region.
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