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The IANA pool of available IPv4 addresses was exhausted on 3 February, 2011.

The RIPE NCC is still able to allocate IPV4 addresses to its members from its pool of IPv4 addresses for an unspecified period.

The Internet will not stop functioning when the remaining IPv4 addresses are depleted.

Deploying IPv6 is the only option for Internet growth and evolution.

IPv4 Exhaustion

On 3 February, 2011, the RIPE NCC received one of the IANA's five reserved /8 blocks. In the coming months the RIPE NCC will reach the last /8 of IPv4 address space it holds.

What does this mean?

When the RIPE NCC starts to allocate from the last /8 of IPv4 address space, an LIR may receive only a /22 (1,024 IPv4 addresses), even if they can justify a larger allocation. No new IPv4 Provider Independent (PI) space will be assigned.
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IPv4 Exhaustion

RIPE NCC IPv4 Available Pool Graph

This graph shows the current number of IPv4 addresses in the RIPE NCC available pool.

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