The RIPE NCC announced today that they have only one /8 remaining from their available IPv4 pool and have moved to the exhaustion state of allocations. Organizations with additional needs may only request one /22 allocation even if they can justify more IPv4 addresses.
RIPE now joins APNIC who exhausted their free pool in April 2011 as the two RIRs who no longer have available IPv4 for allocation. Recent statistics predict that ARIN should be the next RIR to exhaust their free pool perhaps as early as 2013.
RIPE NCC Begins to Allocate IPv4 Address Space From the Last /8