[131179] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Oct 21 04:29:14 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4CBFB54B.9010707@zill.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 01:28:14 -0700
To: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@zill.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Oct 20, 2010, at 8:36 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> 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.
All well and good until some of their customers are on IPv6...
Then what?
Owen
