On 16/07/2008 6:31, "David Woodgate" <David.Woodgate at telstra dot net> wrote:
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> My reasoning for this is thus:
> - The proposal suggests that all new and existing LIRs would get only
> one /22 from the last /8
> - There were ~1600 APNIC members at the start of 2008
> - I don't know the number of ISPs behind the NIRs, but I'm guessing ~1000 ?
> - APNIC membership grew ~200 in 2007, so allow for growth of ~1000
> ISPs over 5 years
> Therefore, there may be only ~4000 LIRs in the Asia-Pacific over the
> next 5 years.
Is past membership growth a good guide here? If existing members cannot get
additional IPv4 address space there will presumably be additional demand for
APNIC membership from networks that were previously happy to take a block of
PA space from an upstream ISP.
Regards,
Leo Vegoda