Dear colleagues, Today, 30 November 2010, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) distributed four of the remaining eleven /8s to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs): 5/8 and 37/8 to the RIPE NCC and 23/8 and 100/8 to ARIN. The IANA free pool of IPv4 addresses now stands at seven /8s, or 2.73% of the total IPv4 address pool. When only five /8s remain, the IANA will simultaneously distribute these equally among five RIRs, in accordance with global policy: http://www.icann.org/en/general/allocation-remaining-ipv4-space.htm There are now only two IPv4 blocks available under the normal distribution method. If you have not already adopted the next generation of Internet Protocol, IPv6, I strongly urge you to act now. For more information on IPv6 adoption, visit: http://www.ipv6actnow.org/ If you have any questions or comments, please email <ncc@ripe.net>. Kind regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director, RIPE NCC