On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Geoff Huston <g...@apnic.net> wrote:
> But then again APNIC and RIPE NCC both had last /8 policies in place, which > has mitigated some of the impacts of address pool exhaustion. For smaller > actors there is still a source of addresses in these regions, albeit a very > limited trickle of addresses, but there is still some. As I understand it, > ARIN will continue allocating right to the end of their IPv4 address pool and > not hold back any addresses for this "last chance" trickle feed, or have I > missed something crucial in ARIN's policy handbook? > Nope, you are correct Geoff. There is a /10 reserved for transition technologies (e.g. outside addresses on a CGN) and there is a "critical infrastructure" reserve, but no general purpose reserve like in RIPE and APNIC. ~Chris > Geoff > -- @ChrisGrundemann http://chrisgrundemann.com
