[rpd] LACNIC reaches final /10 of IPv4 space

[Owen DeLong]

Micr0$0ft is actually doing a lot with IPv6. It’s one of the few cases where I will give them some respect. (though limited, I still think they’re mostly evil.)

Amazon, well, I don’t think it’s so much an issue of refusal as an issue of fear and finance. Fear in that they seem very uncertain how to go about even starting the migration and seem to be in a perpetual state of analysis paralysis. Finance in that what they do know is that for them, the transition is going to be very expensive. Only recently do they seem to have begun to realize that it is getting more expensive with each passing day.

OTOH, consider Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and more have definitely taken a strong lead in IPv6.

5 years before they went out of business, nobody would have believed Montgomery Wards would be gone in 5 years. I believe that if Amazon does not solve their IPv6 problems soon, they may well face a similar fate.

Owen

On Jun 11, 2014, at 7:29 AM, Jackson Muthili <jacksonmuthi at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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