Just a month and a half until the final phase of IPv4 exhaustion
January 31, 2017
The IPv4 addresses reserved for Phase 2 of the exhaustion process are about to run out, after which allocations will only be made to those requesting such resources for the first time, said Sergio Rojas, a Registry Service specialist at the Internet Address Registry for Latin America and the Caribbean, the organization responsible for allocating resources in the LAC region.
According to current projections, Phase 2 will come to an end in early March, after which the policy defined for Phase 3 of Internet resource exhaustion (the final phase) will come into force. Under this policy, only those who have not yet received IPv4 addresses will be able to request these resources.
Exhaustion proyection – Phase 2
Taking into account the allocations behavior since June 2014, time when we started this phase, below it is shown a different projection modeling with the estimated exhaustion dates.
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Current phase. The little more than four million IPv4 addresses reserved for depletion Phase 2 have been allocated almost entirely (see graph below). According to the policies implemented by the LACNIC community, during this phase (which began on 10 June, 2014), the maximum allocation size is a /22 (1,024 IP addresses) and the minimum a /24 (256 IP addresses).
Status of IPv4 /10- Phase 2
The following chart show how this /10 were distributed through the members.