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ARIN’s IPv4 pool has just a few drops left

ARIN-IPV4 counterThis has been a long time coming, but looking at the available addresses in the ARIN IPv4 free pool today, you can see that there are just a few specs of IPv4 addresses available.

While many of our predictions on when this day would come have been very wrong.  It can only be a matter of days now before some organization will not receive the block they would have normally received.

I would expect to see ARIN’s announcement either tomorrow (Friday June 26th, 2015) or early next week that the first organization which met the needs test and qualified for a specific sized block did not receive it because there wasn’t a block large enough in the pool.

ARIN-IPv4 blocks - 20150625

IPv6 deployment updates

Geoff Huston has published an update on IPv6 deployment that contains some interesting details.

  • With an estimated 10 billion devices on the Internet today, they are sharing about 1-2 billion of the 4 billion possible IPv4 addresses.  Using those numbers the Internet today is about 10 times larger than the amount of address space being used to actually communicate between clients.
  • Mobile networks such as T-mobile using 464-XLAT are driving IPv6 traffic.  (copy)
  • Belgium leads in IPv6 deployment by percentage followed by the United States.

An Update on IPv6 (copy)