Category: IPv6

Someone had to be first, and it looks like it’s APNIC. Earlier this year all of the regional registries were given a final /8, and APNIC is the first to reach the end game. Have you thought about your IPv6 plans lately?

Dear APNIC community

We are writing to inform you that as of Friday, 15 April 2011, the APNIC
pool reached the Final /8 IPv4 address block, bringing us to Stage Three
of IPv4 exhaustion in the Asia Pacific. For more information about Stage
Three, please refer to:

http://www.apnic.net/ipv4-exhaustion/stages

Last /8 address policy
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IPv4 requests will now be assessed under section 9.10 in “Policies
for IPv4 address space management in the Asia Pacific region”:

http://www.apnic.net/policy/add-manage-policy#9.10

APNIC’s objective during Stage Three is to provide IPv4 address space
for new entrants to the market and for those deploying IPv6.

http://www.apnic.net/ipv4-stage3-faq

>From now, all new and existing APNIC account holders will be entitled
to receive a maximum allocation of a /22 from the Final /8 address
space.

For more details on the eligibility criteria according to the Final /8
policy, please refer to:

http://www.apnic.net/criteria

Act NOW on IPv6
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We encourage Asia Pacific Internet community members to deploy IPv6
within their organizations. You can refer to APNIC for information
regarding IPv6 deployment, statistics, training, and related regional
policies at:

http://www.apnic.net/ipv6

To apply for IPv6 addresses now, please visit:

http://www.apnic.net/kickstart

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APNIC Secretariat secretariat@apnic.net
Asia Pacific NetworkInformation Centre (APNIC) Tel: +61 7 3858 3100
PO Box 3646 South Brisbane, QLD 4101 Australia Fax: +61 7 3858 3199
6 Cordelia Street, South Brisbane, QLD http://www.apnic.net
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The final five IPv4 allocations go to:

102/8   AfriNIC    2011-02    whois.afrinic.net ALLOCATED
103/8   APNIC      2011-02    whois.apnic.net   ALLOCATED
104/8   ARIN       2011-02    whois.arin.net    ALLOCATED
179/8   LACNIC     2011-02    whois.lacnic.net  ALLOCATED
185/8   RIPE NCC   2011-02    whois.ripe.net    ALLOCATED

The Number Resource Organization (NRO) announced today that the free pool of available IPv4 addresses is now fully depleted. On Monday, January 31, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated two blocks of IPv4 address space to APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the Asia Pacific region, which triggered a global policy to allocate the remaining IANA pool equally between the five RIRs. Today IANA allocated those blocks. This means that there are no longer any IPv4 addresses available for allocation from the IANA to the five RIRs.

To read the full text of this announcement from the NRO, go to: http://www.nro.net/news/ipv4-free-pool-depleted

Following these allocations an “end game” policy will now be triggered in which the final five /8s will be automatically distributed, one to each region, marking the end of IPv4 allocations to regional registries. Read the full announcement from APNIC below. We expect there will be a another announcement when the last /8s are allocated and we’ll pass it along.

UPDATE: Significant Announcement 3 February – Watch it live!

Dear Colleagues

The information in this announcement is to enable the Internet
community to update network configurations, such as routing filters,
where required.

APNIC received the following IPv4 address blocks from IANA in February
2011 and will be making allocations from these ranges in the near
future:

39/8
106/8

Reachability and routability testing of the new prefixes will commence
soon. The daily report will be published at the usual URL:

http://www.ris.ripe.net/debogon

Please be aware, this will be the final allocation made by IANA under
the current framework and will trigger the final distribution of five
/8 blocks, one to each RIR under the agreed “Global policy for the
allocation of the remaining IPv4 address space”.

http://www.icann.org/en/general/allocation-remaining-ipv4-space.htm

After these final allocations, each RIR will continue to make
allocations according to their own established policies.

APNIC expects normal allocations to continue for a further three to six
months. After this time, APNIC will continue to make small allocations
from the last /8 block, guided by section 9.10 in “Policies for IPv4
address space management in the Asia Pacific region”. This policy
ensures that IPv4 address space is available for IPv6 transition.

http://www.apnic.net/policy/add-manage-policy

It is expected that these allocations will continue for at least
another five years.

APNIC reiterates that IPv6 is the only means available for the
sustained ongoing growth of the Internet, and urges all members of the
Internet industry to move quickly towards its deployment.

Kind regards,

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APNIC Secretariat secretariat@apnic.net
Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) Tel: +61 7 3858 3100
PO Box 3646 South Brisbane, QLD 4101 Australia Fax: +61 7 3858 3199
6 Cordelia Street, South Brisbane, QLD http://www.apnic.net
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