On 4/23/2013 5:41 PM, Valdis Kletnieks wrote: > I didn't see any mention of this Tony Hain paper: > > http://tndh.net/~tony/ietf/ARIN-runout-projection.pdf > > tl;dr: ARIN predicted to run out of IP space to allocate in August this year. > > Are you ready? >
Where do the startup ISPs whom didn't qualify for PI IPv4 in the past fit into a post-run out world where they would qualify? I am speaking in generics but also about a real ISP that is in this situation today. In my example This ISP could show need for a /22 but wasn't multihoming at the time and likely will not until after run-out. How does such an ISP begin to address their backbone and customers facing interfaces without tying themselves to an ISP and their PA space? I don't imagine they will be open to paying extortion prices for IPs that other people never bothered to use.
