Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote: >>> Have people here looked at this? It's "interesting". >>> >>> http://bill.herrin.us/arin-policy-proposal.html > > JPNIC region has been practicing similar stuff since year 2001. > many of major ISPs have applied to the address space (43.0.0.0/8). > > http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=apnic+ogino+ipv4&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 It is quite different IMHO, reading through http://www.apnic.net/meetings/11/presentations/time-limit-prop.ppt it contains a very interesting concept, at least if I understand it correctly, a wee summary: - ISP's can get IPv4 address space based on light justification in a very easy and cheap way - The allocation given is only allowed to be used for period X time - When it expires, the allocation is returned to the free pool. - When it expires, the ISP should move to IPv6 or another IPv4 block based on the policies at hand. This allows startup ISP's to get IPv4 space easily and start using it, gaining customers and then get on a roll completely. Which is cool for startups, especially the "move to IPv6" portion. At least that is how I understand from the slide-set. (Correct me as I will most likely be wrong ;) For existing ISP's or what the ARIN has as "legacy spaceholders" this won't help much though. For most RIR regions one simply has to become member of the RIR, which means one becomes an LIR in most regions, then one can justify address space and get whatever sizes you want, for IPv6 in general a /32. Total cost of that ~3k initially, and maybe 1k yearly, which should be only a very small portion of cash that one has to invest in a startup ISP anyway comparing to overhead like people/hardware/transit/etc etc. Greets, Jeroen
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