[162522] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Grundemann)
Wed Apr 24 07:40:18 2013
In-Reply-To: <6C133B91-4A01-48EC-B3A5-81F9967EBF02@apnic.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:40:05 -0400
From: Chris Grundemann <cgrundemann@gmail.com>
To: Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net> wrote:
> But then again APNIC and RIPE NCC both had last /8 policies in place, whi=
ch has mitigated some of the impacts of address pool exhaustion. For smalle=
r actors there is still a source of addresses in these regions, albeit a ve=
ry limited trickle of addresses, but there is still some. As I understand =
it, ARIN will continue allocating right to the end of their IPv4 address po=
ol and not hold back any addresses for this "last chance" trickle feed, or =
have I missed something crucial in ARIN's policy handbook?
>
Nope, you are correct Geoff. There is a /10 reserved for transition
technologies (e.g. outside addresses on a CGN) and there is a
"critical infrastructure" reserve, but no general purpose reserve like
in RIPE and APNIC.
~Chris
> Geoff
>
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