In Jakarta, Geoff Huston presented the status of our IPv4 resources, in particular about exhaustion and transfer,
and some participants asked to summarize and post it to the list for further discussion.
Following is Chairs' summary of the presentation and discussion.
1. Status
of APNIC Final /8 pool (103/8) - Will
run out ~4-5 years
I think this is an appropriate time frame for runout of this pool as it will be at least that long before new entrants are not in need of some way to communicate with the legacy IPv4 internet.
2. Status
of IANA Recovered pool (non-103) - Will
run out in next 7 months+
- IANA may allocate additional space in every 6 months
- This
pool will repeatedly ‘run-out’ as IANA delegates more space and it is
distributed by APNIC