[address-policy-wg] 2011-04 New Policy Proposal

>> (And no, we don't have 37000 ASNs with 1.4 ipv6 prefixes each yet - if
>> we had, I would start celebrating, and then go on turning off IPv4)
> 
> eh, sorry. I worded what I said rather badly.  I meant that at the time I
> looked, there were 37,000 ASNs active on the internet.  Separate to that,
> there had been a ratio of 1.4 ipv6 prefixes originated by each ASN that
> originated an ipv6 prefix, and that this ratio had been relatively
> consistent over the previous couple of years.  Hope this clarifies.
> 
> Definitely not 37000*1.4 = 51000 ipv6 prefixes.

my point was to give an estimate of the number of possible 6rd users, compared to the number of /29s available.
it is obviously far less than the total number of ASNs in use. 

cheers,
Ole