Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

Owen DeLong owen at delong.com
Mon Oct 18 15:17:17 UTC 2010


Uh.... that would be 12 left -- 7 general distribution and 5 reserved for the
global end allocation policy.

That's 5%, not 5 /8s.

Owen

On Oct 18, 2010, at 4:44 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote:

> APNIC just got another IPv4 /8 thus only 5 left:
> 
> http://www.nro.net/media/remaining-ipv4-address-below-5.html
> (And the spammers will take the rest...)
> 
> So, if your company is not doing IPv6 yet, you really are really getting
> late now.
> 
> Greets,
> Jeroen
> 
> (PS: There seems to be a trend for people calling themselves"IPv6
> Pioneers" as they recently did something with IPv6, if you didn't play
> in the 6bone/early-RIR allocs you are not a pioneer as you are 10 years
> late)





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