[rpd] LACNIC reaches final /10 of IPv4 space

[Jackson Muthili]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 8:48 AM, John Hay <jhay at meraka.org.za> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 01:17:23PM +0800, Bope Domilongo Christian wrote:
>> Thank you Alan and seun, this an important  milestone, having a policy to
>> protect our critical resources will be great.
>
> But is there much point in protecting and trying to prolong ipv4 in the
> AfriNIC region if the rest of the NICs are running out?

Yes.
Rest of world are running out and but refused to install IPv6. It is
still looking for IPv4. I wonder why???
Why big guy like Microsoft, amazon have refused to large scale deploy
and drive IPv6?

> At some stage
> companies / organisations in those regions will only be able to get
> ipv6 addresses. Are you sure your users will not want to communicate
> with them or they with the users / companies on your networks?
>
> I think Alan's email should rather serve as a heads up to implement
> ipv6 in your network and start to think about what missing IPv6 policy
> there is.
>
> Regards
>
> John
> --
> John Hay -- jhay at meraka.csir.co.za / jhay at meraka.org.za
>
>>
>> With best regards,
>> writing on my personal capacity.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 4:13 AM, Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Thanks for this update Alan, from all indication it will seem that v4
>> > exhaustion time within AfriNIC region may be sooner than earlier
>> > predicted.
>> >
>> > Should this region be worried?... maybe:
>> > - More content in those region where v4 is getting exhausted will go v6
>> > but then v6 deployment in our region is relatively low (someone says there
>> > is translation to the rescue)
>> > - Our region will continue to experience an increase in v4 requests from
>> > organizations that are more domicile in regions with v4 exhaustion. Perhaps
>> > this could be an opportunity to "by policy" improve ISP establishment in
>> > our region? Maybe yes. Should we also "by policy" ensure addresses within
>> > this region are used more within the region.... how do we encourage this as
>> > the region seem to be comfortable with *translation*. Can policy make this
>> > happen?
>> >
>> > Cheers!
>> > PS: My views alone.
>> > sent from Google nexus 4
>> > kindly excuse brevity and typos.
>> > On 10 Jun 2014 17:23, "Alan Barrett" <apb at cequrux.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Three weeks ago, on 20 May 2014, LACNIC's available pool of IPv4 space
>> >> became less then a /9 equivalent.  This triggered the activation of IANA's
>> >> Recovered IPv4 Pool in terms of Global Policy GPP-IPv4-2011.
>> >>
>> >> Today, 10 June 2014, LACNIC's available pool of IPv4 space became less
>> >> than a /10 equivalent (4194302 IPv4 addresses).  This triggers LACNIC's
>> >> IPv4 exhaustion policy.
>> >>
>> >> Announcements from 20 May 2014:
>> >> <http://www.nro.net/news/lacnics-ipv4-address-pool-now-down-to-a-9>
>> >> <http://www.nro.net/news/iana-allocates-recovered-ipv4-addresses-to-rir>
>> >>
>> >> Announcement from 10 Jun 2014:
>> >> <http://www.lacnic.net/en/web/anuncios/2014-no-hay-mas-
>> >> direcciones-ipv4-en-lac>
>> >>
>> >> --apb (Alan Barrett)
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