<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">@McTim,<br><br>For a technical audience - very true what you say (splitting hair and agreeing that IPv4 resources in Asia are not yet over ;-). <br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>walu.<br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 4/17/11, McTim <i><dogwallah@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: McTim <dogwallah@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [kictanet] Its official - Asia Pacific runs out of IPv4 resources.<br>To: "Walubengo J" <jwalu@yahoo.com><br>Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br>Date: Sunday, April 17, 2011, 8:54 PM<br><br><div id="yiv189896295">Walu,<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br>
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<div class="yiv189896295gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Walubengo J <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=jwalu@yahoo.com">jwalu@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="yiv189896295gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font: inherit;" valign="top">Apologies for cross-posting.<br><br>------<br><h1>It’s official: Asia’s just run out of IPv4 Addresses</h1><br>Well, that was fast. The <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.apnic.net/">Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)</a>
has just released the last block of Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
addresses in its available pool. We knew this was coming when the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.icann.org/">Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)</a> and the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.iana.org/">Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)</a> announced in February that t<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/don-8217t-panic-it-8217s-only-the-internet-running-out-of-addresses/656">he last of the world’s remaining IPv4 blocks had been assigned</a>
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.<br><br>more @<br><b><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://tinyurl.com/3emsqf6">http://tinyurl.com/3emsqf6</a></b><br><br>walu.<br>--- On <b>Sat, 4/16/11, Alice Munyua <i><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:alice@apc.org" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=alice@apc.org">alice@apc.org</a>></i></b> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Alice Munyua <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:alice@apc.org" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=alice@apc.org">alice@apc.org</a>><br>Subject: [kictanet] Fwd: ICT4D Masters Bursary from University of Manchester<br>
To: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=jwalu@yahoo.com">jwalu@yahoo.com</a><br>Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><br>
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