At the ARIN 49 meeting last week in Nashville, we had a great panel discussion about the long road with the transition to IPv6.
It was a great discussion from a number of Industry leaders including Vint Cerf and Geoff Huston.
You can view all of the ARIN 49 content here: https://www.arin.net/participate/meetings/ARIN49/
LacNIC announced today that they will start processing InterRIR IPv4 address transfers. LACNIC has been in the process of preparing for this for almost a year after the policy proposal LAC-2019-1: IPv4 Resource Transfer Policy (comprehensive) was ratified in June of 2019.
ARIN has announced that its InterRIR transfer policy is compatible with LACNIC’s and thus addresses can now be transferred between the two regions. I expect RIPE and APNIC also be be able to transfer IPv4 addresses to LACNIC shortly.
This leaves AfriNIC as the only region now without an InterRIR transfer policy. Transfer policies continue to be discussed in the region but none has achieved consensus thus far. Three transfer policy drafts are listed as Under Discussion on the AfriNIC Policy Proposals page now in mid-July 2020.
https://www.lacnic.net/4711/2/lacnic/lacnic-starts-processing-inter-rir-transfers
APNIC in a blog posting announced that a portion of the 43/8 (Class A) IPv4 block will be sold to fund Asia-Pacific Internet development.
The 43/8 block was originally allocated to the WIDE (Widely Integrated Distributed Environment) Project in Japan. Now with the IPv4 address market firmly established and this block being underutilized the registrant of the block has decided to transfer a portion of the block to other users via the IPv4 address market.
What makes this transaction unique is that the block is being transferred to a charitable organization with the requirement that the block be sold and the proceeds used to fund Internet Development. As part of this process APNIC is being more involved in the transaction and is accepting the block for transfer under these conditions. The block(s) are being transferred to Asia Pacific Internet Development Trust as the first part of this transaction.
Read more at the full blog post from APNIC…
Hilco Streambank has published a set of IPv4 pricing data which shows a section of the IPv4 market. While the IPv4 market is opaque various disclosures have given us a peek into the market. From the $11.25 Microsoft paid in 2011 various data sources have shown the price of an IPv4 address creeping up toward $20.00.
Hilco’s data supports the rise and also starts to show a flattening of the market prices around $20. There are many factors which are affecting IPv4 address pricing, and this is just Hilco’s view, but it does provide buyers and sellers some insight into the market for IPv4 addresses.
Geoff Huston has posted his annual review of the addressing world. Here are a few of my notes from reviewing the addressing and BGP reports.