[162519] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugen Leitl)
Wed Apr 24 05:53:01 2013
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:52:48 +0200
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CA+qj4S_Pwfc_sh_rcJFDn5kCxwSB8X4yoJGPQwa9wraTnqw+HA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 06:10:30PM -0400, Andrew Latham wrote:
> > tl;dr: ARIN predicted to run out of IP space to allocate in August this year.
> >
> > Are you ready?
>
> I have sadly witnessed a growing number of businesses with /24s moving
> to colocation/aws networks and not giving up their unused network
> space. I assume this will come into play soon. I have already read the
> news of blackmarket sales of network allocations in Europe.
One of the immediate results of RIPE NCC exhaustion was that ISPs
and colo now ask for monthly IPv4 space rental to end users, starting
with 1 EUR/IPv4 address per month, trend is up.
