The Regional Internet Registry for Europe, the Middle East and...
The Regional Internet Registry for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Africa, RIPE NCC, ran out of regular IPv4 address space as of Friday. With one last block of Ipv4 addresses still in the hands of the RIPE…
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NCC address managers, they now allocate numbers according to a tightly controlled last-mile policy, officials said. All requesters only can receive one block of 1,024 IPv4-addresses, even if they need more. RIPE NCC is the second of the five RIRs that has used up its pool. The Asian RIR, APNIC, ran out April 19, 2011. According to APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Huston, who has been monitoring the distribution of the final Ipv4 resources, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) will be next, with a projected date for the last IPv4 addresses to be distributed next August. The Latin American and African Registries still have some time to go because consumption rates are smaller in those regions. Once the Ipv4 addresses are used up, the registries still have some last-mile reserves, some of which are also kept for unforeseen developments.