dumb question: are any of the RIR's out of IPv4 addresses?

Wed Feb 17 02:23:22 UTC 2021

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 4:47 PM Michael Thomas <mike at mtcc.com> wrote:
> So aside from Afrinic, this is all being done on the gray market?

Hi Mike,

No. The market is fully above board with policies written into the RIR
operations to intentionally support its existence. In the ARIN region
that's things like the "specified transfer" policy.

> Wouldn't you expect that price to follow something like an exponential
> curve as available addresses become more and more scarce and unavailable
> for essentially any price?

Most likely, but it's a long curve and we're very, very early on it.
Still lots of eyeballs using public IPv4 addresses who wouldn't be
significantly inconvenienced if they had to share an IPv4 address with
their neighbors. Eventually we'll reach a sharper part of the curve
and suddenly: IPv6.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 4:47 PM Michael Thomas <mike at mtcc.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 2/16/21 4:18 PM, Fred Baker wrote:
> > You may find this article interesting:
> > https://blog.apnic.net/2019/12/13/keep-calm-and-carry-on-the-status-of-ipv4-address-allocation/
> > <https://blog.apnic.net/2019/12/13/keep-calm-and-carry-on-the-status-of-ipv4-address-allocation/>
> >
> So aside from Afrinic, this is all being done on the gray market?
> Wouldn't you expect that price to follow something like an exponential
> curve as available addresses become more and more scarce and unavailable
> for essentially any price?
>
> Mike
>
>
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> >> On Feb 16, 2021, at 3:07 PM, Michael Thomas <mike at mtcc.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 
> >> Basically are there places that you can't get allocations? If so,
> >> what is happening?
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>

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