Only 0.3 of a /8 left[1] before the rationing policy kicks in.
I hope everyone is ready 
[1] http://www.apnic.net/community/ipv4-exhaustion/graphical-information
* Graham Beneke
Only 0.3 of a /8 left[1] before the rationing policy kicks in.
Hi,
Actually, they're already empty. Chinanet Fujian Province Network
allocated 498432 addresses today, spread out over 1102(!) individual
prefixes in the range /21-/24.
Unless any resources has been returned to the free pool today, there's
nothing left in the APNIC pool outside of the 103/8 block, which is the
one set aside for the final /8 policy.
Best regards,
Where do you see this? On ftp.apnic.net I see delegated-apnic-20110414 which only contains info upto the 13th and has a timestamp of Apr 13 15:15.
Based on that file, APNIC still has 17.57 million regular + 2.27 M legacy = 19.84 M total address space, so another 0.5 M wouldn't deplete what's left.
I also don't get what they did two days ago:
inetnum: 39.192.0.0 - 39.255.255.255
netname: Debogon-prefix
descr: APNIC Debogon Project
This is address space that's now marked as delegated and removed from the pile of unused address space for no obvious reason.
* Iljitsch van Beijnum
Actually, they're already empty. Chinanet Fujian Province Network
allocated 498432 addresses today, spread out over 1102(!)
individual prefixes in the range /21-/24.Where do you see this? On ftp.apnic.net I see
delegated-apnic-20110414 which only contains info upto the 13th and
has a timestamp of Apr 13 15:15.Based on that file, APNIC still has 17.57 million regular + 2.27 M
legacy = 19.84 M total address space, so another 0.5 M wouldn't
deplete what's left.
Hi,
APNIC has for some time now made available an extended version of the
delegated file that explicitly says which blocks are available:
ftp://ftp.apnic.net/apnic/stats/apnic/delegated-apnic-extended-latest
Disregarding 103/8, there were 1104 remaining available prefixes before
APNIC's offices opened today. Now they're closed, and by looking in
whois.apnic.net I can tell that every single one of the prefixes that
were marked in the delegated-extended file as available is now allocated
- 1102 of them to Chinanet Fujian Province Network, and two
(106.0.32.0/19 and 116.90.0.0/18) to the APNIC Debogon Project.
So unless some new blocks (for example returned space) has made it into
the free pool today, they are down to their last /8. Actually, they're a
bit under one /8, as there's been some assignments made to the Debogon
Project in 103/8 already.
I also don't get what they did two days ago:
inetnum: 39.192.0.0 - 39.255.255.255
netname: Debogon-prefix
descr: APNIC Debogon ProjectThis is address space that's now marked as delegated and removed from
the pile of unused address space for no obvious reason.
I believe they are using those prefixes for research. According to the
APNIC whois database, 53 individual assignments have been made to the
Debogon Project (including the three we've mentioned). In any case, when
looking at the graph at
http://www.apnic.net/community/ipv4-exhaustion/graphical-information
and the delegated-extended file, it appears that these prefixes do count
as assigned space like any other assignment. I would assume that when
the research project is over, they will be returned to the free pool and
assigned under the last /8 policy just like any other space that enters
the pool after the last /8 policy has been implemented.
Best regards,
That is extremely curious. How can they justify taking 4 million addresses for research two days before running out of regularly allocatable address space? They could have taken that /10 out of the final /8 rather than taking it from the last scraps of regular space if they really need a /10 for research, which is already dubious in and of itself.
Of course they didn't bother to respond to my request for information about all of this.
That is extremely curious. How can they justify taking 4 million addresses for research two days before running out of regularly allocatable address space? They could have taken that /10 out of the final /8 rather than taking it from the last scraps of regular space if they really need a /10 for research, which is already dubious in and of itself.
Debogon usually means they will establish beacons to detect networks
that will incorrectly filter that block, and is an indication that
such block will soon start being distributed to LIRs.
Rubens
I believe that rather than research, those are prefixes which are particularly "dirty" and
they have allocated them to the project to try and get them cleaned up so that they can
be subsequently issued.
Owen
I just got the 15 apr file which has the info for 14 apr (sigh...) and indeed 1100 blocks adding up to 0.52 million addresses were given out today. And that still leaves 2.27 million legacy addresses available, including all of 43.224.0.0/11 except 43.244 and 43.253, as well as 0.34 million non-legacy, non-103/8 addresses.
103/8 is apparently going to be the special final /8. It's still wide open except a /16, a /22 and a /24 that are registered to the debogon project (as of a week and a half ago).
Recently, Microsoft Australia has been refused a temp allocation (like
they had every year) for one of their conferences.
All… as of early this morning, APNIC is empty.
Last /8 Policy is now in effect.
...Skeeve
Why do you say that? Do you have information that contradicts my numbers?
Just an email from APNIC 3 hours ago to all regional mailing lists.
Kinda authoritative I would say.
The addresses were "in flight" to the recipient and got caught up in a set of scripted processes that inappropriately assigned them into the debogon project for a couple of days while some related administrative processes were underway.
Our apologies for the temporary confusion -- and we promise do better next time!
And yes, APNIC is indeed down to the last /8 - <http://www.apnic.net/publications/news/2011/final-8> contains the announcement
Also, our apologies for not getting back to Iljitsch's request for information sooner - we have been somewhat busy in the last few days!
thanks,
Geoff
The addresses were "in flight" to the recipient and got caught up in a set of scripted processes that inappropriately assigned them into the debogon project for a couple of days while some related administrative processes were underway.
Our apologies for the temporary confusion -- and we promise do better next time!
Thanks for the clarification. But I hope you're not planning on running out of IPv6 anytime soon... Or maybe you're getting at 16-bit AS numbers?
And yes, APNIC is indeed down to the last /8
Hm, I still see 2.27 million legacy addresses as free, mostly 43.224.0.0/11 except 43.244 and 43.253, as well as 0.34 million non-legacy. Why don't these count and/or what will happen to them?
Iljitsch