* Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 14 apr 2011, at 8:33, Tore Anderson wrote:
Actually, they're already empty. Chinanet Fujian Province Network allocated 498432 addresses today, spread out over 1102(!) individual prefixes in the range /21-/24.
Where do you see this? On ftp.apnic.net I see delegated-apnic-20110414 which only contains info upto the 13th and has a timestamp of Apr 13 15:15.
Based on that file, APNIC still has 17.57 million regular + 2.27 M legacy = 19.84 M total address space, so another 0.5 M wouldn't deplete what's left.
Hi, APNIC has for some time now made available an extended version of the delegated file that explicitly says which blocks are available: ftp://ftp.apnic.net/apnic/stats/apnic/delegated-apnic-extended-latest Disregarding 103/8, there were 1104 remaining available prefixes before APNIC's offices opened today. Now they're closed, and by looking in whois.apnic.net I can tell that every single one of the prefixes that were marked in the delegated-extended file as available is now allocated - 1102 of them to Chinanet Fujian Province Network, and two (106.0.32.0/19 and 116.90.0.0/18) to the APNIC Debogon Project. So unless some new blocks (for example returned space) has made it into the free pool today, they are down to their last /8. Actually, they're a bit under one /8, as there's been some assignments made to the Debogon Project in 103/8 already.
I also don't get what they did two days ago:
inetnum: 39.192.0.0 - 39.255.255.255 netname: Debogon-prefix descr: APNIC Debogon Project
This is address space that's now marked as delegated and removed from the pile of unused address space for no obvious reason.
I believe they are using those prefixes for research. According to the APNIC whois database, 53 individual assignments have been made to the Debogon Project (including the three we've mentioned). In any case, when looking at the graph at http://www.apnic.net/community/ipv4-exhaustion/graphical-information and the delegated-extended file, it appears that these prefixes do count as assigned space like any other assignment. I would assume that when the research project is over, they will be returned to the free pool and assigned under the last /8 policy just like any other space that enters the pool after the last /8 policy has been implemented. Best regards, -- Tore Anderson Redpill Linpro AS - http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ Tel: +47 21 54 41 27