IP Addressing in 2018
Geoff Huston has posted his annual IP addressing update. Here are a few things I found interesting in his report for this year. The current IPv4 Internet likely has 20 Billion devices connected to...
View Article2018 IPv4 Market Reports
Avenue4 and Hilco Streambank have posted their 2018 state of the IPv4 transfer market reports. A couple of comments I found of note in their report. The average trade price for blocks <4k IPv4...
View ArticleARIN 43 Public Policy Preview
Here is my ARIN 43 Policy Preview for the upcoming meeting in Barbados. For those of you who are unable to make the trip down you are welcome to participate remotely. Additional feedback on these draft...
View ArticleRIPE Region hits the bottom of its IPv4 reserve pool
The RIPE NCC today announced that they have basically reached the end of their IPv4 reserve pool. When RIPE received its last /8 allocation from IANA they choose to allocate this block in /22...
View ArticleUSG/DoD IPv4 blocks for sale someday?
The news that the US government (Department of Defense) was considering selling its 13 /8 blocks appeared on a number of mailing lists last month. The possible sale appeared in a version of the House...
View Article2019 Addressing
Geoff Huston has posted his annual review of the addressing world. Here are a few of my notes from reviewing the addressing and BGP reports. IPv4 transfer transactions continued to grow in 2019, but...
View ArticleIPv4 pricing data update
Hilco Streambank has published a set of IPv4 pricing data which shows a section of the IPv4 market. While the IPv4 market is opaque various disclosures have given us a peek into the market. From the...
View ArticlePortion of 43/8 to be sold to fund Asia-Pacific Internet Development
APNIC in a blog posting announced that a portion of the 43/8 (Class A) IPv4 block will be sold to fund Asia-Pacific Internet development. The 43/8 block was originally allocated to the WIDE (Widely...
View ArticleLACNIC begins InterRIR IPv4 address transfers
LacNIC announced today that they will start processing InterRIR IPv4 address transfers. LACNIC has been in the process of preparing for this for almost a year after the policy proposal LAC-2019-1: IPv4...
View ArticleThe long road with IPv6
At the ARIN 49 meeting last week in Nashville, we had a great panel discussion about the long road with the transition to IPv6. It was a great discussion from a number of Industry leaders including...
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