ARIN Is Down To the Last /8 of IPv4 Addresses

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @02:55AM from the end-times dept.

An anonymous reader writes "On 3 February 2011, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) issued the remaining five /8 address blocks, each containing 16.7 million addresses, in the global free pool equally to the five RIRs, and as such ARIN is no longer able to receive additional IPv4 resources from the IANA. After yesterday's large allocation (104.64.0.0/10) to Akamai, the address pool remaining to be assigned by ARIN is now down to the last /8. This triggers stricter allocation rules and marks the end of general availability of new IPv4 addresses in North America. ARIN thus follows the RIRs of Asia, Europe and South America into the final phase of IPv4 depletion."

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Don't worry, the internet only has months to live. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-04-23 03:02 · Score: -1, Troll

Besides, just "allocating" IP addresses like it's free? Socialism.
So lets take the whole address space back by Marrow · 2014-04-23 04:16 · Score: -1, Troll

Lets leave IPv6 for those people who want to communicate Internationally. We will simply take back the entire address space and have the complete 32bits for the US.
That should leave more than enough addresses here for most anything and force the IPv6 transition onto only those people/services that need to go across borders.