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quux · 11-12-2007, 03:04 AM

See the very top of the report:

Projected IANA Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion: 26-Aug-2010

Projected RIR Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion: 26-Jun-2011

Note that the 'unadvertised pool' they are talking about are address ranges given to entities, but not advertized on the internet. As an example, IBM has the entire 9.x.x.x range. A portion of that is used internally only (where it's known as the 'Power 9'). Bringing it back into public use would require 1) a lot of goodwill on IBM's part and 2) a lot of work by them!

I have no idea what's the deal with the other 'assigned but not advertised on public internet' address ranges. But I can't imagine many companies just giving those addresses back out of the goodness of their hearts.

Sooo ... for these ranges to come back into play, we'd probably see some sort of auction system, which would help somewhat, but would still give a lot of orgs a darn good incentive to go IPv6. Simple supply and demand stuff.

It's possible they'll pull some rabbit out of the hat and stave it off in various ways. But we'll be seeing a lot more demand for IPv6 either way, because IPv4 exhaustion is inevitable.

11-12-2007, 03:04 AM	#5 (permalink)
quux Newbie Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 3	See the very top of the report: Projected IANA Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion: 26-Aug-2010 Projected RIR Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion: 26-Jun-2011 Note that the 'unadvertised pool' they are talking about are address ranges given to entities, but not advertized on the internet. As an example, IBM has the entire 9.x.x.x range. A portion of that is used internally only (where it's known as the 'Power 9'). Bringing it back into public use would require 1) a lot of goodwill on IBM's part and 2) a lot of work by them! I have no idea what's the deal with the other 'assigned but not advertised on public internet' address ranges. But I can't imagine many companies just giving those addresses back out of the goodness of their hearts. Sooo ... for these ranges to come back into play, we'd probably see some sort of auction system, which would help somewhat, but would still give a lot of orgs a darn good incentive to go IPv6. Simple supply and demand stuff. It's possible they'll pull some rabbit out of the hat and stave it off in various ways. But we'll be seeing a lot more demand for IPv6 either way, because IPv4 exhaustion is inevitable. Last edited by quux; 11-12-2007 at 03:16 AM..