[140319] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo and IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Kaufman)
Mon May 9 21:08:22 2011
From: Matthew Kaufman <matthew@matthew.at>
In-Reply-To: <69E27392-E4B7-49F0-9C7C-31A0C99B9FC6@delong.com>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 18:08:26 -0700
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On May 9, 2011, at 5:40 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
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> On May 8, 2011, at 11:54 PM, Franck Martin wrote:
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>> http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/ipv6/general/ipv6-05.html
>> "Will IPv6 become a permanent change on June 8, 2011?
>> No. World IPv6 day is a 24-hour trial period in which we will publish =
our content on both the IPv4 and IPv6 servers. Yahoo! is participating =
in order to help prepare our services (as well as your hardware) to help =
ensure a smooth transition for when the IPv4 addresses run out. "
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>> Huh=85 I thought IPv4 addresses had run out already=85.
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>> At IANA level and now for anyone in the AP region at least.
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> IANA is out of IPv4.
> APNIC is into their austerity policy which covers their entire last =
/8.
> RIPE-NCC is probably next and I expect they will likely run out next =
month.
> I suspect ARIN's free pool will probably last until October-ish, give =
or take.
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> LACNIC and AfriNIC are kind of wildcards. If consumption remains =
within their
> regions, they probably have addresses for some time.
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> If organizations from the other regions start pillaging their address =
space, it
> could evaporate in weeks, depending on how they react.
It'd certainly be interesting to watch and see how many things that =
might be in the APNIC region are actually getting ARIN assignments over =
the next few weeks/months.
Matthew Kaufman=
