On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Jay Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
(APNIC runs out of IPv4 space to give to providers somewhere around August, statistically; RIPE in Feb or March 2012, ARIN in July 2012).
ARIN issued the last 5 available /8s to RIRs *today*; we've been talking about it all day on NANOG.
Not exactly. IANA issued the last 5 /8s to RIRs, of which ARIN is one, today. But George is talking about RIR exhaustion, which is still some months away.
His phrasing seemed a bit.. insufficiently clear, to me. That was me, attempting to clarify.
I was trying to explain the situation without trying to braindump the totality of how IP space allocation works structurally, globally, politically, and organizationally, which would have us up all day attempting to get people to understand it all (much less what the acronym list expands to). This list is fortunately not NANOG, and hopefully never will be 8-)