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

Mon Apr 18 09:23:45 EAT 2011

@McTim,

For a technical audience - very true what you say (splitting hair and agreeing that IPv4 resources in Asia are not yet over ;-).  

But for a "policy-business-level" audience with planning time frames of 1-2yrs, the big picture is that Asia-Pacific has reached that critical point where new businesses wishing to connect to the internet are almost "forced" into getting IPv6 rather than IPv4 since IPv4 is officially a scarce resource in that region. Furthermore the remaining balance of 16million IP resources is a drop in the ocean considering the rate at which they are gobbling these addresses in Asia-Pacific.

But more important is the implications for Africa which is that other regions  (Asia, Europe and America) will begin to be more interesting in our more "abundantly" available and  comparatively "idle" IPv4 resources. Africa is therefore potentially exposed and the scramble for its relatively idle IPv4 resources through un-orthodox (black market) means is now more tempting than before.

walu.

--- On Sun, 4/17/11, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

From: McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Its official - Asia Pacific runs out of IPv4 resources.
To: "Walubengo J" <jwalu at yahoo.com>
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Sunday, April 17, 2011, 8:54 PM

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.

-- 
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.

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It’s official: Asia’s just run out of IPv4 Addresses
Well, that was fast. The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)
 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) and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) announced in February that the last of the world’s remaining IPv4 blocks had been assigned
 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:

From: Alice Munyua <alice at apc.org>
Subject: [kictanet] Fwd: ICT4D Masters Bursary from University of Manchester

To: jwalu at yahoo.com
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>

Date: Saturday, April 16, 2011, 8:50 PM

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