To confirm, the /10 reserved for IPv6 transition and the /16 reserved for micro-allocations are not included in the daily IPv4 inventory counter on the ARIN homepage.
Leslie On 4/29/14 2:23 PM, "David Farmer" <[email protected]> wrote: >If I'm not mistaken the reserved /10 for IPv6 deployment and /16 for >micro-allocations is not included in the counter. Could staff confirm >please. > >Further, there is an additional approximately /10 that will come from >the IANA recovered address pool. I'm comfortable with this being >reserved for special purposes, if we see fit. > >However, I'm not comfortable with reserving more out of the current free >pool at this point. We are well past the point where making that kind >of change can occur without causing potentially bad side effects. Any >drastic change in what is available for normal allocations at this point >is likely create a panic. > >We discussed this as a community, there were proposals to reserve larger >chunks including the whole last /8 as RIPE and APNIC did. We chose this >strategy. In some situations never is better than too late. > >My best advice is find your towel and DON'T PANIC! > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Panic_(The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_th >e_Galaxy)#Knowing_where_one.27s_towel_is >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Panic_(The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_th >e_Galaxy)#Don.27t_Panic > > >Thanks > >On 4/29/14, 12:54 , Bill Owens wrote: >> A couple of recent threads here and my general sense of the (lack of) >>urgency around IPv6 deployment has made me wonder whether setting aside >>a /10 under NRPM 4.10 - Dedicated IPv4 block to facilitate IPv6 >>Deployment - is really going to be enough. I was looking at Geoff >>Huston's graphs (http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/) and noticed that >>both RIPE and APNIC, by coincidence, will be using up the first /10 out >>of their reserved /8s at about the same time, near the end of this year. >>A naive calculation says that APNIC will go through the /10 in about 3.5 >>years, and RIPE in about 2.2 years. Of course it is difficult to predict >>how the runout of the reserved /10 under 4.10 will look, but I think >>it's reasonable to assume that it won't be any slower than 2-3 years, >>since unlike RIPE and APNIC there's no limit to how much space an entity >>can receive under 4.10, only the pace at which it can be handed out; >>assuming the maximum rate, a /22 can be issued to someone every two >>years, > r >> ather than once and done as with the other two RIRs. >> >> Given that the inventory currently contains one /9 and one /10, we are >>getting close to the point where any additional set-asides will no >>longer be possible, so I thought it might be worthwhile at least >>considering whether the 4.10 pool ought to be enlarged while it still >>can be. . . >> >> Bill. >> _______________________________________________ >> PPML >> You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >> the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). >> Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: >> http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml >> Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues. >> > > >-- >================================================ >David Farmer Email: [email protected] >Office of Information Technology >University of Minnesota >2218 University Ave SE Phone: 1-612-626-0815 >Minneapolis, MN 55414-3029 Cell: 1-612-812-9952 >================================================ >_______________________________________________ >PPML >You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to >the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). >Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: >http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml >Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues. _______________________________________________ PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues.
