The global free pool of IPv4 depleted on this day, 3 February 2011. This historic event was reported by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, which allocated two IPv4 address blocks to APNIC and then its final five /8 blocks to each of the five Regional Internet Registries per global policy. IPv4 exceeded all of theRead More
Read MoreWhen visiting CES this week, or in your next call to your vendors, there are some important questions you want to ask about IPv6 before you invest in new equipment or services. To make it easier, Team ARIN asked Matt Ryanczak, ARIN’s Network Operations Manager what he would be asking, and then we created thisRead More
Read MoreWell, 2010 is almost over so I am taking a break to write my holiday letter. It’s been a great year, but boy am I exhausted. (Exhausted! Get it? Nothing breaks the ice like a little IPv4 depletion humor.) Way back on 1 January, there were a whopping 26 of those IPv4 /8s left toRead More
Read MoreWe’ve been yelling to the rafters for a couple of years now about how we’re running out of IPv4 address space. We hope you heard us and that you’re preparing for it with IPv6. But what we haven’t explained up until now is the full progression in the march toward Total IPv4 Exhaustion. Check outRead More
Read MorePosted: Tuesday, 30 November 2010 Today, 30 November 2010, the IANA allocated four /8s to the RIRs: 23/8 and 100/8 to ARIN and 5/8 and 37/8 to RIPE NCC. This leaves only seven /8s remaining in IANA free pool of IPv4 addresses, or 2.73% of the total. When the IANA IPv4 free pool has onlyRead More
Read MoreCommunity education is important to us – it’s the reason Team ARIN exists! We’re always looking for new ways to help our community understand the issues related to Internet number resource management, and perhaps more importantly, we try to give our community ways to help THEIR communities understand why all this stuff is important. ToRead More
Read MoreThe 2010 Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-10) of the International Telecommunications Union concluded 22 October in Guadalajara, Mexico. This three-week event brought together representatives from the 192 Member States and more than 700 Sector Members and Associates and set all of the financial planning, strategic goals, and policy for the ITU for the next four years. InRead More
Read More“People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote — a very different thing.” – Walter H. Judd These words don’t just apply to national politics: theyRead More
Read MoreLate last year, ARIN officially joined the world of social media, launching a Twitter account, a Facebook account, and a YouTube channel. We followed that up by launching this lovely microsite earlier this year. We’ve done all of this for a few reasons. We wanted to open more channels for you to find us, toRead More
Read MoreAt Team ARIN we like to bang the IPv6 adoption tambourine. We’re happy to tell you all about the issues related to IPv4 depletion and provide the information you need to understand about preparing to transition to IPv6 addressing. Over at our “official” website, ARIN staff can help you with all your Internet number resourceRead More
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