[kictanet] [i-network] Internet IP Addresses running out?

[Walubengo J]

Bwana PS,

Glad you are hearing it from the source.  There is indeed a huge possibility (theory again?) of a black market for  IPv4 resources emerging as the depletion becomes a reality (over the next couple of months in developed economies).

@McTim,

True, AfriNIC is constrained by its policies NOT to dish out their IPv4 resources to markets outside Africa - BUT there exists some huge "legacy" IPv4 space/resources in Africa which I think can easily find themselves in this black market (that Verisign is speculating on).

walu.

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Date: Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 4:55 PM

Just had a meeting with top officials of Verisign, hosts of more than 80 root servers.  He says they will exhaust IPv4 in the next 6 months.  The debate is whether they should acquire African IP addreses in some sort of secondary market while they migrate to IPV6.  US is just beggining the implementation of v6.  They foresee a crisis within the next six months not only with the addresses but the confusion in addressing. 

Ndemo.


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