[130908] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Oct 18 11:19:25 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4CBC3328.7090205@unfix.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:17:17 -0700
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Uh.... that would be 12 left -- 7 general distribution and 5 reserved for the
global end allocation policy.
That's 5%, not 5 /8s.
Owen
On Oct 18, 2010, at 4:44 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> APNIC just got another IPv4 /8 thus only 5 left:
>
> http://www.nro.net/media/remaining-ipv4-address-below-5.html
> (And the spammers will take the rest...)
>
> So, if your company is not doing IPv6 yet, you really are really getting
> late now.
>
> Greets,
> Jeroen
>
> (PS: There seems to be a trend for people calling themselves"IPv6
> Pioneers" as they recently did something with IPv6, if you didn't play
> in the 6bone/early-RIR allocs you are not a pioneer as you are 10 years
> late)
