It does NOT mean "the world ran out of ALL IPv4 addresses" now. It only means no more IPv4 unicast addresses are "as reserves". There are still some in five RIRs' pool today!
(However, it is quite close. When those in RIRs are also used up soon after, then we can really say "no more IPv4 addresses".)
This is just an important reminder for you to speed up your migration to IPv6! However, as I pointed out before, don't get panic about this!
Many news posts are written about this since Feburary 2011. I believe they are based on this post:
(However, it is quite close. When those in RIRs are also used up soon after, then we can really say "no more IPv4 addresses".)
This is just an important reminder for you to speed up your migration to IPv6! However, as I pointed out before, don't get panic about this!
Many news posts are written about this since Feburary 2011. I believe they are based on this post:
Five /8s allocated to RIRs - no unallocated IPv4 unicast /8s remain
Leo Vegoda leo.vegoda at icann.org
Thu Feb 3 14:51:35 UTC 2011
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Hi,
The IANA IPv4 registry has been updated to reflect the allocation of five /8 IPv4 blocks: one to each RIR, in February 2011. You can find the updated IANA IPv4 registry at:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xml
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xhtml
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.txt
And if you do open the "IANA IPv4 Address Space Registry" in the last link, you could check yourself that the first 224 "/8" blocks (that is, the whole IPv4 unicast address space) are all used.
No single "/8" block is in "UNALLOCATED" status. Wow!
If you are wary of what you can do now, check my older post:
Possible actions to begin with for entering IPv6 era
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