Subj : RIPE Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses
To   : All
From : Alexey Vissarionov
Date : Fri Sep 14 2012 21:34:56

Good ${greeting_time}, All!

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* Originally to: All.

RIPE Region Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/09/14/1426232/

New submitter 8-Track writes "The RIPE NCC, the Regional Internet Registry for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia, distributed the last blocks of IPv4 address space from the available pool. This means they are now distributing IPv4 address space to Local Internet Registries (LIRs) from the last /8. An ISP may receive one /22 allocation (1,024 IPv4 addresses), even if they can justify a larger allocation. This /22 allocation will only be made to LIRs if they have already received an IPv6 allocation from an upstream LIR or the RIPE NCC. Time to move to IPv6!"


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Michiel's prediction for the time of total exhaustion was 10.09.2012, my was 31.10.2012; while Michiel is only 4 days off with "take last /8" (but not the total exhaustion), I still have some chances for my guess that distributing last 16k of /22 blocks will take a month or so to be confirmed... :-)


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