[kictanet] Its official - Asia Pacific runs out of IPv4 resources.

[McTim]

Walu,

Headlines can be deceiving, APNIC is down the their last /8 (16 million
addresses), so at this point slightly different rules adopted by the
APNIC community kick in.  They are not completely out, as the headline
suggests.

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Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route
indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel




On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Apologies for cross-posting.
>
> ------
> It’s official: Asia’s just run out of IPv4 Addresses
> Well, that was fast. The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)<http://www.apnic.net/>has just released the last block of Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
> addresses in its available pool. We knew this was coming when the Internet
> Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) <http://www.icann.org/>and the Internet
> Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) <http://www.iana.org/> announced in
> February that the last of the world’s remaining IPv4 blocks had been
> assigned<http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/don-8217t-panic-it-8217s-only-the-internet-running-out-of-addresses/656>to the Regional Internet Registries (RIR). What we didn’t know was that
> APNIC would run out quickly. I, and most other people, thought that its
> supply of IPv4 addresses would last until at least early summer. We were
> wrong.
>
> more @
> *http://tinyurl.com/3emsqf6*
>
> walu.
> --- On *Sat, 4/16/11, Alice Munyua <alice at apc.org>* wrote:
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Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route
indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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