APNIC Announces its IPv4 Address Pool Reaches Final /8

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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
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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