[members-discuss] why is it proving impossible to gain IP sapce

Hi,

Op Woensdag, 15-02-2012 om 0:39 schreef Sven Olaf Kamphuis:
> can someone provide an insight into wether ipv4 at ripe has actually run 
> out now? how much is left.. etc :P
> 
> and can someone at google and facebook and twitter and stuff provide a 
> reason why ipv6 STILL isn't on on their stuff by default

Have a look at http://www.worldipv6launch.org/participants/?q=1. You'll see that most big sites will enable ipv6 on the 6'th of June, 2012.

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> (the same goes for ALL german xdsl providers ;)
> 
> it's not like you lot didn't have millions to spend and years to prepare 
> for it :P
> 
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, Bill Lewis wrote:
> 
> > hi,
> >
> > We have a /21 IP4 and a /32 IP6 and need more IP4... We appreciate the
> > IP4 pool is very low...but...
> >
> > We have been trying to gain more IP4 , a /21 would be good, /20 idealy
> > as equipment vendors and partners are unfortunately not yet up to speed
> > with IP6 for production use here and therefore we need more IP4 to
> > bridge this gap.
> >
> > The issue is that it is proving impossible to gain any IP4, it is clear
> > that we have allocated all we have and are now forced to "rent" IP space
> > from other LIR's in order to bridge the gap.
> >
> > Can somebody tell me why we are paying to be an LIR but are unable to
> > gain modest extra resources above our initial allocation 3 years ago and
> > therefore having to resort to renting space privately?
> >
> > Perhaps somebody could clarify this please as the last request got to a
> > point where it was clarified that all the /21 is allocated and
> > then....nothing...  We even were told we had last had an additional
> > allocation in 2010 which is not true as we joined in 2009 and that is
> > when we gained the initial and only blocks we have.
> >
> > Our first alloc just pushes us into the Small category on its own due to
> > being a recent-ish LIR and therefore an extra block is unlikely to
> > increase our fees, is this why?
> >
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > Bill
> > uk.kijoma
> >
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