[131163] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Giagnocavo)
Wed Oct 20 23:36:52 2010
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 23:36:43 -0400
From: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@zill.net>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4CBC3328.7090205@unfix.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 10/18/2010 7:44 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.
>
Actually for those of my clients in one location, it served as an
impetus to extend a contract with Level3 for another 3 years - with
their existing allocation of a /24 of IPv4 addresses included.
IPv6 is for those who are "late" in getting IPv4 space!
( grinning, ducking, and running )...
--Patrick
