[ppml] "Who's afraid of IPv4 address depletion? Apparently no one."

[Leo Vegoda]

Hi,

Rodney Joffe wrote:

> MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
> and Numbers has found a little breathing room in the IPv4 address
> space with its recovery of a block of 16 million IPv4 addresses.
>
> The IP addresses recovered were once used to connect older protocol
> packet-data networks with the fledgling Internet. The block of
> addresses, technically referred to as 14.0.0.0/8, is also known as
> Net-14. " ...
>
> Perhaps we'll begin to see a little more of this.

I think it is unlikely that we'll see any more whole /8s returned to the IANA,
although it's possible that longer prefixes could be returned to a free pool
and be made available for allocation to someone else.

But as I wrote here, that address recovery is unlikely to extend the free pools'
lifetimes by more than a few months.

http://blog.icann.org/?p=271

Regards,

Leo