[ipv6-wg] 2006 IPv4 Address Use Report

I would think that an interesting statistic to look at would be the
consumption rates by region and by the top 10 economy/country consumers in
both IPv4 and IPv6. I would also look at the percentage of the allocated
IPv6 resources by region and by the top 10 economy/country consumers.

Ray 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipv6-wg-admin at ripe.net [mailto:ipv6-wg-admin at ripe.net] On Behalf Of
> Iljitsch van Beijnum
> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 5:33 AM
> To: Tanya Hinman
> Cc: ipv6-wg at ripe.net
> Subject: Re: [ipv6-wg] 2006 IPv4 Address Use Report
> 
> On 1-jan-2007, at 23:53, Tanya Hinman wrote:
> 
> > Is the decrease in the percentage of used IPv4 space in the United
> > States of America due to other countries increasing their usage and/
> > or the return of unused IPv4 space in the United States of America?
> > Just looking at upcoming usage statistics globally.
> 
> A year ago, the US held 1324.93 million addresses out of a total of
> 2238.04 million = 59.2% (apparently I rounded off incorrectly with my
> 60% figure).
> 
> Yesterday's total is 2407.11 so for the US to maintain its 59.2% it
> would have to hold 1425 million addresses, which is an increase of
> exactly 100 million addresses. But the US didn't get 100 million
> addresses last year, but "only" 41.66 million for a total of 1366.53
> (56.8%).
> 
> So the US keeps growing, and still uses up a quarter of the new
> addresses given out in 2006, but the rest of the world grows faster
> so the US lead is diminishing.