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Terence Zhang YH wrote:
What's the final version on re-application time limit? Is that 12 months with exceptional handling or until the "final /8" assignment measures are implemented? With exceptional handling in place, why don't we go with the oringinal proposed time limit of 24 months?
I brought the 12 months into the equation. My reason was based on the estimate of many that there is now less than two years before the addresses run out and that includes the period when the "final /8" policy will be in place.By the time the policy can be agreed and implemented we may have only 18 months left!
--- More detailed arguments below: For example, in April 2009 ARIN said in a letter to company chief executives (https://www.arin.net/knowledge/about_resources/ceo_letter.pdf): "At the current rate of consumption, IPv4 will be depleted within the next two years." This is based on information from http://www.nro.org/statistics/ APNIC's web site says: Delegations of Internet addresses highlight the following key trends: * Currently more address space is being allocated in the Asia Pacific region than any other region reflecting the rapid rate of Internet development in this part of the world * The rate of IPv4 consumption in South Asia has increased significantly since 2006 * APNIC has experienced a 35 per cent growth in requests for IPv4 over the last two years * The rate of IPv6 allocations has more than doubled since 2006 indicating an increased awareness of IPv4 free pool exhaustion. (http://www.apnic.net/publications/research-and-insights/stats/key-trends)and in Japan, Intec NetCore's IPv4 Exhaustion Counter http://inetcore.com/project/ipv4ec/index_en.html shows a count of under two years. (701 days at present)
