"It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Wed Apr 24 09:52:48 UTC 2013


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.




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