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> Date: Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 2:12 AM > Subject: RIPE NCC now allocating IPv4 address space from the last /8 netblock > To: NANOG list <nanog at nanog dot org>, tt at postbiota dot org, forkit! <fork at xent dot com>
> > > > http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/europe-officially-runs-out-of-ipv4-addresses/
> > > Europe officially runs out of IPv4 addresses > > RIPE NCC now allocating IPv4 address space from the last /8 netblock > > by Iljitsch van Beijnum - Sep 14, 2012 3:20 pm UTC
> > > Earlier today, the RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination > Centre) announced it is down to its last "/8" worth of IPv4 addresses. This > means that it is no longer possible to obtain new IPv4 addresses in Europe,
> the former USSR, or the Middle East, with one small exception: every network > operator that is a "RIPE member" or "local Internet registry" (LIR) can > obtain one final block of 1024 IPv4 addresses. To fulfill these requests, the
> RIPE NCC is keeping that last /8, which contains 16.8 million addresses, in > reserve. RIPE NCC > > None of this comes as a surprise given that the global pool of free IPv4 > addresses was emptied in February 2011. APNIC, which distributes IP addresses
> in the Asia-Pacific region, ran out of IPv4 addresses in May 2011; it has > been working under the "final /8" regime ever since. The remaining three > Regional Internet Registries are AfriNIC (Africa), LACNIC (Latin America and
> the Caribbean), and ARIN (North America), which all have enough IPv4 > addresses to last at least two more years. > > Since the depletion of IPv4 address space in the APNIC region, little > information has surfaced about how network operators in the region have
> managed the situation. However, the lack of IPv4 addresses only impacts > organizations and consumers who need additional addresses, or who need > addresses for the first time. Existing IPv4 users remain unaffected, and so
> the immediate impact is limited. Also, large network operators get large > address blocks from the RIRs and they typically have a pool of unused > addresses of their own, so few will be experiencing immediate problems.
> > However, every year for the past five years, some 200 million new IPv4 > addresses have been put into use. Without a steady supply of fresh addresses, > many Internet-related activities are going to become problematic in the years
> to come. Fortunately, 20 years ago the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) > foresaw that the 3.7 billion addresses afforded by the 32-bit IPv4 address > space would become a problem, and started working on a replacement: IPv6. But
> the IPv4 depletion didn't happen as fast as the IETF originally predicted, > and IPv6 adoption has languished. But recently, IPv6 adoption got a big push > in the form of World IPv6 Launch. Eventually, IPv6 will replace IPv4, but the
> transition won't be pretty. Reader comments 19 > > Iljitsch van Beijnum / Iljitsch is a contributing writer at Ars Technica, > where he contributes articles about network protocols as well as Apple
> topics. He is currently finishing his Ph.D work at the telematics department > at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) in Spain. @iljitsch > > >