Jamie Baddeley wrote:
Given the deafening silence I'm going to provoke some debate. Just for fun :-)
Debate on this subject is very important as the policy proposal suggests "the exhaustion of IPv4 address space is expected to take place as early as within the next five years". Imagine a world where there are no more allocations of v4 space. How would this affect your business and customers? What if a large country with a huge population, an independent outlook on the world and vast growth in internet usage (mentioning no names) was denied more allocations and simply decided to recycle someone else's /8's as there's "nothing our people need to see in there". What if this was 202.0.0.0/8 or 203.0.0.0/8, or both. Could that happen? If so how badly do things get broken? Seems to me doing nothing (in this case not even rearranging the deck chairs) is not a good option but it looks like the one that will be taken unless there is agreement on a better plan. This policy proposal needs some more debate and who better that nznog members to 'stir it up' :) http://www.apnic.net/mailing-lists/sig-policy/index.shtml -- Robert Gray bob(a)brockhurst.co.nz