3 ms·
Good. Companies are going to keep putting off IPV6 migrations until ARIN slows down their deployments of new IPV4 IP space. To this point all the doomsday talk
by jsz0 17y ago
Good. Companies are going to keep putting off IPV6 migrations until ARIN slows down their deployments of new IPV4 IP space. To this point all the doomsday talk hasn't had much impact on reality. Request IPs, get IPs, ignore problem. Once ARIN does slow down new deployments companies will have to make more efficient use of their existing IPV4 space in the short term. Most of the big deployments I've seen in ISP environments are very wasteful or were hugely over engineered to start with. In my environment I haven't requested new IP space in the last 3 years and could probably go another 2-3 years without a single new public IPV4 IP address.
- viraptor 17y agoI think they know what they're doing by requesting more... At least in Europe you have to properly label your IPs and that way "prove" they're used. You will not get new ranges just because you request them. Solution? Every time a new service goes live - give it a new ip. And another one for failover. You fill your allocations quickly and go back for more ips. This way people who over-allocated will have no problem to free up a full /24 when they need it, once ARIN and others slow down. But you won't get a new /24 at all and will not have any space to reuse / redesign... Cruel, but that will happen.