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

Wed Apr 24 11:40:05 UTC 2013

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Geoff Huston <gih at apnic.net> wrote:

> But then again APNIC and RIPE NCC both had last /8 policies in place, which has mitigated some of the impacts of address pool exhaustion. For smaller actors there is still a source of addresses in these regions, albeit a very 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 pool 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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