[lacnog] Fwd: APNIC Announces its IPv4 Address Pool Reaches Final /8

[Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo]

FYI


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Axel Pawlik <no-reply en ripe.net>
Date: Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 5:08 AM
Subject: APNIC Announces its IPv4 Address Pool Reaches Final /8
To: ncc-announce en ripe.net, ripe-list en ripe.net, ncc-services-wg en ripe.net


[Apologies for duplicate emails]


Dear Colleagues,

Today, Friday 15 April 2011, APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry
(RIR) for the Asia Pacific region, announced that it has distributed
the final IPv4 address space from its reserves of IPv4.

This means that APNIC is now supplying IPv4 address space to its
members from the last /8 it holds according to the guidelines in
section 9.10 in "Policies for IPv4 address space management in the
Asia Pacific region":
http://www.apnic.net/policy/add-manage-policy

This event does not affect the RIPE NCC's reserves of IPv4 address
space and we will continue to distribute these resources to our
members on the basis of need until we reach the last /8.

According to RIPE Document ripe-509, section 5.6, once the RIPE NCC
reaches the last /8 of IPv4 address space, each Local Internet
Registry (LIR) can receive one /22 (1024 IPv4 addresses) upon
application for IPv4 resources. In order to obtain this /22
allocation, the LIR must already have an IPv6 allocation and have a
demonstrated need for address space.


IPv6 - Act Now
---------------

The RIPE NCC cannot predict how long its own supply of IPv4 address
space will last and has worked for several years to inform all
stakeholders of the urgent need to deploy IPv6.

It is now imperative that all stakeholders deploy IPv6 on their
networks to ensure the continuity of their online operations and the
long-term growth of the Internet.

For more information on IPv6 and its deployment, advice from experts
and where to get training, please see:
www.ipv6actnow.org


Further Information
--------------------

For more information on IPv4 exhaustion, please see:
http://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/ipv4-exhaustion

For more information on how the RIPE NCC's last /8 will be
distributed, please see:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-509

For information about the amount of IPv4 address space left in the
RIPE NCC's available pool of IPv4, please see the graph online at:
http://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/ipv4-exhaustion/ipv4-available-pool-graph

Regards,

Axel Pawlik

Managing Director
RIPE NCC




-- 
--
=========================
Carlos M. Martinez-Cagnazzo
http://www.labs.lacnic.net
=========================