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

[McTim]

Walu, all true. Good thing we have recently come to an agreement under
which no more than 10% of an allocation an be used outside this
regioon, and then only to provide connectivity back to africa! Rgds,
mctim

On 4/18/11, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:
> @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
>
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> 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)
>  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:
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> To: jwalu at yahoo.com
> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
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> Date: Saturday, April 16, 2011, 8:50 PM
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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