Peter Thimmesch of Depository, Inc presents his views on the IPv4 address market at the Global Internet Governance: Research and Public Policy Challenges for the Next Decade Regional Conference held at the American University School of International Service on Thursday, May 5th, 2011.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/ip_addressing_in_the_new_age_of_scarcity/
APNIC has made it official, the Asia Pacific region has now fully depleted their IPv4 available address pool. APNIC now has only a reserved /8 remaining that will be used to provide each APNIC member on a single /22.
ARIN announced today that the transfer of IPv4 address space from the Nortel bankruptcy case was completed with Microsoft completing the “needs based” transfer requirement according to the existing ARIN policies. Microsoft also signed a registration services agreement for this address space.
https://www.arin.net/about_us/media/releases/20110415.html
Court Approves Nortel’s Sale of IPv4 Addresses to Microsoft
IPv4 addresses no property Canada wieghs in on Nortel/Microsoft sale
The IANA free pool of IPv4 addresses has been completely allocated.
Now that all the IPv4 addresses have been allocated to the regional registries, it will only be a short time now before the registries will be unable to fulfill new or additional requests for IPv4 addresses. It does appear that the mainstream press has noticed finally and we can only hope now that this point will mark a movement toward the implementation of IPv6 rather than trying to extend Ipv4 further with workarounds and network address translation.
https://www.arin.net/announcements/2011/20110203.html
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2379119,00.asp
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/river-of-ipv4-addresses-officially-runs-dry.ars
http://www.nro.net/media-center/video-archive-3-february-2011
Comcast now has 25 users using IPv6 services over their cable plant. While certainly a milestone, when we reach thousands of users that will certainly be something to cheer about.