On Sunday, September 25, 2016, Paul Thornton <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25/09/2016 01:54, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > >> One year ago today, at 12:36pm EDT, Facebook On This Day reminds me, John >> Curran announced that the last IPv4 address block in ARIN's Free Pool had >> been assigned. >> >> How's that been workin' out for everyone? >> > > If you'll all indulge a bit of a RIPE-centric reply on this; I've was > allocated a /22 from around half-way through 185.169.0.0/16 last week > (185 being RIPE's final /8). > > Assuming that RIPE are allocating sequentially - and I believe they are - > This means that they have consumed around 66.5% of their final /8. They > started allocating from this in September 2012, which suggests a reasonably > low consumption rate but the RIPE final /8 will be exhausted in around two > years time. > > I can't find an equivalent ARIN page of "how much we've allocated from our > last /8" - the statistics show that just over 2x /16s worth have been > assigned/allocated between January 2016 and July 2016, so a lower rate by > some margin than RIPE - but there are of course policy differences at play > there. > > Now the operational question of "How has this affected us" is probably > best answered with "We've had to pay real money for IPv4 addresses since > then." What may be much more interesting is what happens when the fairly > ready supply of IPv4 addresses in the secondary transfer market starts to > dry up. Just throwing additional money at the problem will probably not be > an effective or viable solution then. > > I'm sure that Geoff Huston has a much more accurate and colourful set of > predictions than my back-of-envelope calculations for those interested! > > Paul. >
For your use case , would ipv6 solve anything? Think it is fair to say big content and big eyeballs have moved to IPv6 (notable exceptions exist) http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2016/08/facebook-akamai-pass-major-milestone-over-50-ipv6-from-us-mobile-networks/
