[General] Fwd: IPv4 March 2011 depletion

[Bashar Abdullah]

I'm surprised at how cool most companies seem toward this catastrophe. 



On Nov 18, 2010, at 6:51 AM, Bashar Al-Abdulhadi <bashar at kuwaitnet.net> wrote:

> Some nice information about IPv4 and v6 which seems a trigger to ICANN's email below it , how does our ISPs in Kuwait acting toward IPv6 ?
> 
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:	[menog] IPv4 March 2011 depletion
> Date:	Sun, 14 Nov 2010 09:51:30 +0200
> From:	Ahmed Abu-Abed
> To:	menog at menog. net
> 
> Hello everyone,
>  
> The new IPv4 depletion date, at the IANA level, is now March 2011, and only 11 blocks of /8 are left. A few months ago it was predicted as July 2011, but the exponential demand keeps bringing the date forward.
>  
> See counter on http://www.ipv6forum.org/
>  
> Practically, there are only 6 more /8s left for grabs according to RIR demand, plus 5 more /8s already earmarked as one for each RIR once the last free /8 is handed over.
>  
> So by Q1 next year expect a lot of PR around this news and pressure on operations to be IPv6 ready all the way to the customers getting public IPv6 addresses.
>  
> There is a good presentation on how to deal with IPv6 access AND IPv4 coexistence for ISPs after IPv4-depletion, and it shows that DS-Lite and NAT64 are the only practical options:
> http://www.slideshare.net/IOSHints/nat64-and-dns64-in-30-minutes
>  
> DS-Lite client needs to be implemented as a protocol on the CPE. NAT64 has a big catch in that it assumes your PC (or smart mobile host for that matter) is not on dual-stack, i.e. an IPv6-only host, which is a challenge. NAT64 also needs reworking the DNS infrastructure.
>  
>  
> Wishing all a happy Eid !
> كل عام وأنتم بخير
>  
> Ahmed Abu-Abed
> Amman, Jordan
> +962 777 669 100
> 
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:	[menog] 105/8 allocated to AfriNIC
> Date:	Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:01:40 -0800
> From:	Leo Vegoda
> To:	Leo Vegoda
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The IANA IPv4 registry has been updated to reflect the allocation
> of a /8 IPv4 block to AfriNIC in November 2010: 105/8. You can find 
> the IANA IPv4 registry at:
> 
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xml
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xhtml
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.txt
> 
> The complete list of IPv4 /8s allocated so far this year is:
> 
> 1/8
> 14/8
> 27/8
> 31/8
> 36/8
> 42/8
> 49/8
> 50/8
> 101/8
> 105/8
> 107/8
> 176/8
> 177/8
> 181/8
> 223/8
> 
> Please update your filters as appropriate.
> 
> The IANA free pool contains 11 unallocated unicast IPv4 /8s.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Leo Vegoda
> Number Resources Manager, IANA
> ICANN
> 
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