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NANOG now owned by NewNOG

Monday, February 7th, 2011

After a very long time supporting the NANOG community, MERIT has transitioned ownership of the NANOG property to a newly incorporated group called NewNOG.  My understanding is that NewNOG has initially been funded by a loan from ARIN (which announced the transition today), and has created a new membership structure that should help with ongoing funding.

NANOG participants aren’t required to become NewNOG members. However, participation in the governance of NANOG (via NewNOG) will require membership, including payment of the $100 membership dues. Even if you don’t intend to pursue leadership positions within NANOG, membership will help with ongoing NANOG business following this transition – so, please consider joining NewNOG if you can.

And, of course, many thanks to MERIT for their service to the NANOG community.

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Final Five IPv4 Blocks Allocated

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

As anticipated, the final five /8 blocks of IPv4 addresses were allocated from IANA to the RIRs this morning. They were apparently granted in alphabetical order.

http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xml

102/8    AfriNIC    2011-02    whois.afrinic.net    ALLOCATED
103/8    APNIC      2011-02    whois.apnic.net      ALLOCATED
104/8    ARIN       2011-02    whois.arin.net       ALLOCATED
179/8    LACNIC     2011-02    whois.lacnic.net     ALLOCATED
185/8    RIPE NCC   2011-02    whois.ripe.net       ALLOCATED

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Predicted RIR IPv4 Exhaustion

Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

Geoff Huston was kind enough to produce a graph of the month-by-month probability of when each RIR will run out of their “normal” IPv4 address pool. As he described in a post to NANOG, this graph assumes that no unusual inter-region activities cause the utilization rate to change. So, things could go differently in reality. But this is a pretty good starting perspective on when member organizations will start being denied new IPv4 address allocations.

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IPv4 Exhaustion is Here

Monday, January 31st, 2011

Today the last “normal ” IANA allocation of IPv4 addresses was made to APNIC.  (See the announcement at http://www.apnic.net/publications/news/2011/delegation.) APNIC received the following two /8 network blocks:

  • 39/8
  • 106/8

By a quick view of the IANA registry at http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xml, I can see that there are now five blocks remaining. Per the rules agreed upon by IANA and the five RIRs, these will soon be distributed so that each of the RIRs will receive one more /8. The remaining blocks are:

  • 102/8
  • 103/8
  • 104/8
  • 179/8
  • 185/8

In other words, IPv4 exhaustion is here – the IANA supply is gone, the RIR supply is limited, and soon organizations will be unable to acquire more network space.  This is going to be an interesting year (and decade).

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ARIN 2010 Election Candidates Announced

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

My work as part of the ARIN NomCom this year has concluded, and I’m happy to see that the final slate of candidates was announced today:

Elections for two (2) seats on the ARIN Board of Trustees and five (5)
seats on the ARIN Advisory Council will be held online 6-16 October.

The following candidates have agreed to run for office:

Board of Trustees:
* Vinton Cerf, Google, Inc.
* Lee Howard, Time Warner Cable
* Aaron Hughes, 6connect, Inc
* Paul Vixie, Internet Systems Consortium

Advisory Council:
* Cathy Aronson, Cascadeo Corporation
* Jim Deleskie, Tata
* Owen DeLong, Hurricane Electric
* David Divins, Carpathia Hosting
* Wes George, Sprint
* Gary Giesen, Advanced Knowledge Networks
* Chris Grundemann, TW Telecom
* Martin Hannigan, Akamai Technologies, Inc.
* William Herrin, ITT
* Scott Leibrand, Internap
* Andrew Mentges, Jumpline Inc
* John Springer, Inland Telephone
* Tom Zeller, Indiana University

Many of the candidates will address the membership on 6 October at
ARIN’s Public Policy and Members Meeting in Atlanta. These speeches,
brief biographies and a form to voice support for candidates can be
found online at ARIN Election Headquarters:

https://www.arin.net/app/election/

Good luck to all of the candidates, and thank you for your offer of service to the ARIN community.

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