[131293] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Oct 21 21:19:46 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4CC0959A.3060603@consolejunkie.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:15:23 -0700
To: Leen Besselink <leen@consolejunkie.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Oct 21, 2010, at 12:33 PM, Leen Besselink wrote:
> 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.
>
Not necessarily. It's up to each RIR's policy. ARIN has no such policy.
The other regions generally do not have such a policy.
> 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
>
Nope... No registry has such a policy that I know of.
Owen
