On 28 Nov 2006, at 8:55:am, Philip D'Ath wrote:
The APNIC article you reference only uses data up to January 2003. The data doesn't even show the exponential growth in /8 allocations that have occurred in the last two years. The article makes the erroneous assumption that allocations will continue to be linear. This has no been proven untrue.
At the time the article was written there where 221 /8's available.
The 221 /8s are the whole unicast space and that number hasn't changed. The significant number is the number of those /8s still available. If you want to look at the allocation rate in recent years it is: 2002 - 4 2003 - 5 2004 - 9 2005 - 13 2006 (part) - 10 And that list doesn't take account of the 16 /8s added to the IANA Reserved pool in April 2003. Regards, -- leo vegoda Registration Services Manager RIPE NCC