[AusNOG] Less than 10% of IPv4 Addresses Remain Unallocated

[Shane Short]

And how long do you think it's going to take for us to transition to IPv6, given consumer level CPE still isn't currently available? 2015 is still scary close..

On 20/01/2010, at 6:47 PM, Noel Butler wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 23:16 -0800, Scott Howard wrote:
>> Not that I disagree with what they are trying to achieve here, but the math here is a bit iffy, depending on what you consider as "available".
>> 
>> Personally I'd consider the "available" address to be 1/8 through 223/8, probably excluding 127/8, and possibly even excluding the various RFC1918 blocks.
>> 
>> At most that gives 223 /8's, probably closer to 221.
>> 
>> Based on http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xhtml, there are a total of 24 /8's still unallocated by IANA.  Even then it's a matter of who's perspective you look at - 1/8 and 27/8 are "allocated" from IANA's perspective, but I'm presuming they are completely unallocated from APNIC's perspective.
>> 
>> So IMHO we're not down to 10% yet, but of course to a certain extent the difference between 10% and even 15% isn't that significant...
>> 
> 
> Yep, and I still stand by at _LEAST_ 2015 before we seriously get close to looking like running out of ipv4, maybe longer than that.
> There's around 400 million IP's stilll up for grabs.
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