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Statistics/Policy UpdateIP Address Distribution

Arno Meulenkamp

Technical Advisor/Trainer

arno@ripe.net

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Global IPv4 Usage in /8s

Public reserved 1

Multicast 16

Experimental 16

Available 53

~ 21%

ARIN 27RIPE NCC 24

APNIC 19

LACNIC 4

AfriNIC 1

Central Registry

94

Private reserved 1

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IPv4 AllocationsRIRs to LIRs/ISPs

0,0

0,5

1,0

1,5

2,0

2,5

3,0

3,5

4,0

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

AfriNIC

APNIC

ARIN

LACNIC

RIPE NCC

AfriNIC

0.51

1%

ARIN

15.35

31%

LACNIC

1.9

4%

APNIC

16.07

32%

RIPE NCC

16.12

32%

Yearly Comparison (/8s)

Cumulative Total (1999–2006)

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IPv6 AllocationsRIRs to LIRs/ISPs

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

AfriNIC

APNIC

ARIN

LACNIC

RIPE NCC

AfriNIC

26

2% RIPE NCC

613

50%

LACNIC

70

6%

ARIN

221

18%

APNIC

286

24%

Cumulative Total (1999–2006)

Yearly Comparison

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0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

AfriNIC

APNIC

ARIN

LACNIC

RIPE NCC

ASN Assignments

LACNIC

859

2,72%

APNIC

3.603

11,41%

ARIN

15.108

47,83%

AfriNIC

190

1%RIPE NCC

11.827

37,44%

Yearly Comparison

Cumulative Total (1999–2006)

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IPv6 Assignment and UtilisationRequirements (2005-08)

• Aims to increase the useful lifetime of IPv6

- period in excess of 100 years

- no further allocation policy changes are anticipated

• Changes:

- allow assignment size to be chosen by LIR

- “End Site” definition for HD ratio calculation to /56

- HD ratio from 0.8 to 0.94

• /32 Allocation:

- old: HD ratio 0.8, /48 assignments: 7132 /48s needed (11%)

- new: HD ratio 0.94, /56 assignments: 6,183,533 /56s needed (37%)

• (24,154 /48s)

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Provider Independent (PI) IPv6 Assignments for End User Organisations (2006-01)

• Currently:

- No PI in IPv6

- Only possible to multihome with LIR allocation

- Multihoming a requirement for some non-LIR

organisations

• Temporary policy: until three years after technical

alternative is available

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IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy (2006-02)

• Changes to the policy:

- organisations without external customers can also

qualify

- allow assignment size to be chosen by LIR

- remove “plan for 200 assignments”

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Provider Independent (PI) Assignment Size (2006-05)

• Minimum assignment size: /24

-when routing is a major issue

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First Raise in IPv4 Assignment Window Size (2006-07)

• Every LIR will have an AW of a /21

- six months after receiving first allocation

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Be aware: policy-announce mailing list

• Low traffic mailing list

- 12 mails this year

• Proposals

• New policies

• http://www.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/policy-announce

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See you in Tallinn!

• RIPE 54: 7 – 11 May 2007

• Tallinn, Estonia

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Thank you!

Questions?