July 2013 Update

I’ve been taking some vacation in the past month so the posting has been quiet here. Catching up on news, it does not appear there is a lot of notable news in the IP address arena. However, here are a few links & notes that I’ve found catching up on the happenings in the past couple of weeks.

RIPE’s “No Need – Post-Depletion Reality Adjustment and Cleanup” proposal (2013-03) was returned to the mailing list and is currently open for additional discussion.
ARIN is getting very close the the 2 /8 equivalents remaining in their IPv4 free pool. The IPv4 free pool counter currently stands at 2.05. With the crossing of the 2 /8’s threshold ARIN will enter phase 3 of their count down plan.
The Internet Governance Forum posted a commentary entitled “Secondary market for IPv4 addresses and the lessons of spectrum policy“
Geoff Huston posted an update on the year since IPv6 launch date, “A year in the life“

RIPE’s 2013-03 policy proposal, “No Need – Post-Depletion Reality Adjustment and Cleanup.”

Chris Grundemann has recently posted his commentary on the recent discussions regarding needs assessment for IPv4 that is be done in the RIPE region under policy proposal 2013-03. It will be interesting to see the final outcome of this discussion and policy proposal.

Removing Need at RIPE

British Telecom begins trial of IPv4 Carrier Grade NAT

British Telecom (BT) has started a trial of Carrier Grade NAT (CGN) for their “Option 1 Total Broadband” customers. Since the RIPE region has now fully exhausted their IPv4 free pool, these types of IP address sharing schemes just seem inevitable. At this point it seems though IPv4 addressing needs continue to grow faster than the deployments of native IPv6. Unfortunately, IPv6 is not backward compatible with IPv4 and IPv4 addresses will continue to be required for all Internet customers either natively or through some type of transition technology as long as the vast majority of the content they wish to reach remains IPv4 only.

BT Retail Tests IP Address Sharing

New IPv4 runout projections in ARIN region

Tony Hain has produced a new set of IPv4 runout projections for the ARIN region that show the region exhausting its supply of IPv4 addresses by August of 2013. This projection pulls the exhaustion date back from mid-2014.

The increased allocations, according to a number of comments at the ARIN meeting, appear to becoming from hosting companies, registered in the US, which are largely supplying services to end customers which are largely outside of the ARIN region.

http://tndh.net/~tony/ietf/ARIN-runout-projection.pdf

Reputation of an IP address and country/state governance

CIADA has published an interesting set of graphs from some research which shows some correlation between a country’s governance and the reputation of its IP addresses.

Correlation between country governance regimes and the reputation of their Internet (IP) address allocations

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July 2013 Update

RIPE’s 2013-03 policy proposal, “No Need – Post-Depletion Reality Adjustment and Cleanup.”

British Telecom begins trial of IPv4 Carrier Grade NAT

New IPv4 runout projections in ARIN region

Reputation of an IP address and country/state governance