On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra(a)baylink.com> wrote:
(APNIC runs
out of IPv4 space to give to providers somewhere around
August, statistically; RIPE in Feb or March 2012, ARIN in July
2012).
ARIN issued the last 5 available /8s to RIRs *today*; we've been
talking about it all day on NANOG.
Not exactly. IANA issued the last 5 /8s to RIRs, of which ARIN is one,
today. But George is talking about RIR exhaustion, which is still some
months away.
His phrasing seemed a bit.. insufficiently clear, to me. That was me,
attempting to clarify.
I was trying to explain the situation without trying to braindump the
totality of how IP space allocation works structurally, globally,
politically, and organizationally, which would have us up all day
attempting to get people to understand it all (much less what the
acronym list expands to). This list is fortunately not NANOG, and
hopefully never will be 8-)
--
-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com