New on RIPE Labs: So Long Last /8 and Thanks For All the Allocations
Dear colleagues, On 17 April 2018, we allocated the last available block of 1,024 addresses in 185/8 - the last /8 we received from IANA back in 2011. This article on RIPE Labs looks at how this address space was allocated and how it is used today: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/wilhelm/so-long-last-8-and-thanks-for-all-the-... It's important to keep in mind that while 185/8 is finished, we still have around nine million recovered IPv4 addresses in our available pool. Under current policy and growth rates, we expect these to last a further two years. Kind regards, Mirjam Kühne RIPE NCC
I see new LIR applications are on the increase as we head towards full IPv4 depletion. I suspect many are companies with existing LIR status opening additional LIR accounts to obtain their /22. I suppose this rate of new LIRs will slow dramatically in the new year when there are no more IPv4 addresses to be had and in two years time, many of these "secondary" LIRs will be shut and their resources transferred to the owners' primary LIR accounts. One thing that occurs to me is that all of this could represent a significant slow down of funds into RIPE. I hope they are taking this into account in their financial planning, these "opportunist" LIRs bring in a lot in membership fees. Aled
Aled Morris via address-policy-wg wrote on 28/08/2019 11:25:
One thing that occurs to me is that all of this could represent a significant slow down of funds into RIPE. I hope they are taking this into account in their financial planning, these "opportunist" LIRs bring in a lot in membership fees.
yes, this has been modelled from a financial planning point of view. Nick
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