Re: [sig-policy] [Sig-policy] prop-062-v001: Use of final /8
you make the claim that:
"it seems hard to
justify even 4,000 LIRs over the next few years; I'd suggest that
8,000 LIRs in the Asia-Pacific seems unlikely within 10 years
Here's some historical data that may be useful in the context of this particular
aspect of the discussion
APNIC publish an "extended" version of the daily stats file (ftp://ftp.apnic.net/pub/stats/apnic/delegated-apnic-extended-latest";)
The last field in each row is a code for the end entity recipient of the
address allocation or assignment, or approximately "LIR" in your terminology.
Now there is some small uncertainty in the figures as at times the NIR code
is used instead, but overall heres the Ipv4 allocation record for APNIC since
2000, based on the numbers in that published file
year new repeat cumulative count
2000 94 432 2856
2001 86 430 2942
2002 83 339 3025
2003 115 425 3140
2004 120 570 3260
2005 216 617 3476
2006 253 786 3729
2007 394 745 4123
2008 280 429 4403
i.e. in 2007 APNIC made 394 IPv4 address allocations to "new" LIRs
and 745 allocations to LIRs who had already previously received an
address allocation. Overall APNIC appears to have made allocations /
assignments to 4,403 LIRs since its inception, and some 1,547 new
LIRs have been recorded since 1 Jan 2000 (i.e the last 8.5 years)
regards,
Geoff