[131234] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leen Besselink)
Thu Oct 21 15:33:52 2010
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 21:33:46 +0200
From: Leen Besselink <leen@consolejunkie.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE0B14C415@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
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On 10/21/2010 09:25 PM, George Bonser wrote:
>> However, consider the fact that there will be v6 only hosts popping up
>> after IANA/RIR/ISP exhaustion. There will be new entrants in the
> public
>> internet space that cannot obtain v4 addresses and will be reachable
>> via v6
>> only ...
> Yep, you can't do NAT64 if you don't have "4". But that said, just
> because ARIN is exhausted doesn't mean PA space is exhausted so there
> will be addresses available though it will be tight.
>
>
That is exactly what the last 5 /8's are for as I understand it.
The last 5 /8's will be allocated to each RIR immediately and I
think by now every RIR has a policy for that last /8 which pretty
much says: only for transitional purposes
