On Apr 19, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote: > Owen DeLong wrote: >> >> I had an interesting discussion with someone from Registration Services at >> ARIN today. >> >> The big requests for IP space (the 11 organizations that hold 75% of all >> ARIN issued >> space) do not come from the server side... They come from the eye-ball ISPs. >> The only >> /8 issued by ARIN to an ISP, for example, was issued to a cable ISP. >> >> With this in mind, I don't think there's much to be gained here. Optimizing >> the utilization >> of less than 25% of the address space in the face of the consumption rate on >> the 75% >> side simply cannot yield a meaningful result. It really is akin to >> rearranging the deck >> chairs on the Titanic. > > The eyeball ISPs will find it trivial to NAT should they ever need to do > so however, something servers cannot do - you are looking at numbers, > not operational considerations.
You and I have vastly different definitions of "trivial". -- TTFN, patrick
