Jamie Baddeley wrote:
> IX's and the like have accelerated IPv4 depletion. Discuss.

Only true to a limited extent.  The real problem is that the minimum 
allocation sizes have been set artificially high to keep the size of the 
routing table down.

If it had been possible to get /24s from the RIRs in recent years, I'd 
say a lot of multihomed sites wouldn't be sitting on large blocks of 
unused address space.

I see the many more /24s finding their way into the routing table as 
organisations acquire unused blocks from others.  It should have been 
possible a long time ago, but RIR rules have discouraged it.  Like it or 
not, once the RIRs have no address space left to assign, a secondary 
market in address space will form, and it's up to the RIRs to figure out 
whether they're going to be involved in the process or not.