On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 18:21 Canada/Eastern, Juha Saarinen wrote:
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-1010666.html?tag=fdfeed
I guess this means Australia/NZ too. Seems Joe's missive about IPv6 was quite prescient.
The RIRs made a presentation of IPv4 assignments recently at a NANOG meeting: http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0302/rir.html From that slideset, here's a breakdown of IPv4 /8 assignments to RIRs: ARIN 16 RIPE 10 APNIC 9 LACNIC 1 That leaves 16 /8s reserved for multicast, and another 204 which are not currently assigned to any RIR (they're currently designated experimental, reserved, etc). So, only 14% of the available IPv4 address space had been assigned to RIRs at the time of that presentation. The sky is not falling quite as fast as some would have you believe.