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ARIN’s IPv4 pool has just a few drops left

This has been a long time coming, but looking at the available addresses in the ARIN IPv4 free pool today, you can see that there are just a few specs of IPv4 addresses available.

While many of our predictions on when this day would come have been very wrong. It can only be a matter of days now before some organization will not receive the block they would have normally received.

I would expect to see ARIN’s announcement either tomorrow (Friday June 26th, 2015) or early next week that the first organization which met the needs test and qualified for a specific sized block did not receive it because there wasn’t a block large enough in the pool.

IPv6 deployment updates

Geoff Huston has published an update on IPv6 deployment that contains some interesting details.

With an estimated 10 billion devices on the Internet today, they are sharing about 1-2 billion of the 4 billion possible IPv4 addresses. Using those numbers the Internet today is about 10 times larger than the amount of address space being used to actually communicate between clients.
Mobile networks such as T-mobile using 464-XLAT are driving IPv6 traffic. (copy)
Belgium leads in IPv6 deployment by percentage followed by the United States.

An Update on IPv6 (copy)