Just an email from APNIC 3 hours ago to all regional mailing lists. Kinda authoritative I would say. --- On 15/04/11 6:25 AM, "APNIC Secretariat" <apnic-no-reply@apnic.net<mailto:apnic-no-reply@apnic.net>> wrote: _______________________________________________________________________ APNIC IPv4 Address Pool Reaches Final /8 _______________________________________________________________________ Dear APNIC community We are writing to inform you that as of Friday, 15 April 2011, the APNIC pool reached the Final /8 IPv4 address block, bringing us to Stage Three of IPv4 exhaustion in the Asia Pacific. For more information about Stage Three, please refer to: http://www.apnic.net/ipv4-exhaustion/stages Last /8 address policy ---------------------- IPv4 requests will now be assessed under section 9.10 in "Policies for IPv4 address space management in the Asia Pacific region": http://www.apnic.net/policy/add-manage-policy#9.10 APNIC's objective during Stage Three is to provide IPv4 address space for new entrants to the market and for those deploying IPv6. http://www.apnic.net/ipv4-stage3-faq
From now, all new and existing APNIC account holders will be entitled to receive a maximum allocation of a /22 from the Final /8 address space.
For more details on the eligibility criteria according to the Final /8 policy, please refer to: http://www.apnic.net/criteria Act NOW on IPv6 --------------- We encourage Asia Pacific Internet community members to deploy IPv6 within their organizations. You can refer to APNIC for information regarding IPv6 deployment, statistics, training, and related regional policies at: http://www.apnic.net/ipv6 To apply for IPv6 addresses now, please visit: http://www.apnic.net/kickstart _______________________________________________________________________ APNIC Secretariat secretariat@apnic.net<mailto:secretariat@apnic.net> Asia Pacific NetworkInformation Centre (APNIC) Tel: +61 7 3858 3100 PO Box 3646 South Brisbane, QLD 4101 Australia Fax: +61 7 3858 3199 6 Cordelia Street, South Brisbane, QLD http://www.apnic.net<http://www.apnic.net/> _______________________________________________________________________ * Sent by email to save paper. Print only if necessary. --- ...Skeeve -- Skeeve Stevens, CEO - eintellego Pty Ltd - The Networking Specialists skeeve@eintellego.net ; www.eintellego.net Phone: 1300 753 383 ; Fax: (+612) 8572 9954 Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 ; skype://skeeve facebook.com/eintellego or eintellego@facebook.com twitter.com/networkceoau ; www.linkedin.com/in/skeeve PO Box 7726, Baulkham Hills, NSW 1755 Australia -- eintellego - The Experts that the Experts call - Juniper - HP Networking - Cisco - Brocade - Arista - Allied Telesis On 15/04/11 8:09 AM, "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <iljitsch@muada.com<mailto:iljitsch@muada.com>> wrote: On 15 apr 2011, at 0:04, Skeeve Stevens wrote: All… as of early this morning, APNIC is empty. Why do you say that? Do you have information that contradicts my numbers?