Re: [sig-policy] prop-088: Distribution of IPv4 addresses once the final
On 01/12/2010, at 12:52 PM, John Mann (ITS) wrote:
> Hi,
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> For a list of addresses in the APNIC pool, see http://bgp.potaroo.net/ipv4-stats/prefixes_apnic_pool.txt
That looks like its just the addresses that have been allocated by APNIC - which can be easily found from their authoritative source:
ftp://ftp.apnic.net/apnic/stats/apnic/
while Geoff runs potaroo, and Geoff works for APNIC, potaroo is not APNIC.
His (Geoff's potaroo) information is insightful, but ultimately not authoritative.
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> I don't know of any list of "reserved addresses" addresses like
At the APNIC meeting and at AusNOG the APNIC secretariat presented a process (resource quality assurance) of how addresses are 'processed' to then be allocated. Which to me means that there will be some pool of resources in various states of process. Be that from new IANA /8s or reclaimed/returned addresses.
I think it is hugely useful to know this information. Just like we have had a complete registry from IANA for many years detailing what is allocated, what is reserved and so on. I don't want to infer it by doing a inverse of the APNIC allocations, I would like the authoritative list from APNIC and the NIRs.
Clearly the final /8 is near, but that isn't the end of IPv4.
Cheers
Terry