[governance] Re: Warning over Net address limits

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:50:13PM +0100,
 Nyangkwe Agien Aaron <nyangkweagien at gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 104 lines which said:

> Howoever, I just stumbled on this intriquing article on the BBC

You were on vacation on the Moon? For many months, a huge flow of
warnings about the depletion of IPv4 addresses come from everywhere.

A few good references:

*
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-55/presentations/huston-ipv4.pdf
the figures and the evolution (nice pictures of train wrecks)

* Afrinic position paper :
http://www.afrinic.net/news/position-on-the-future-of-IP.htm (all the
RIR now have a similar statement, the first one was ARIN
http://www.arin.net/announcements/archives/20070521.html and the last
the RIPE-NCC http://www.ripe.net/news/community-statement.html

* The most famous reference is certainly the song "The day the routers
died" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y36fG2Oba0

ICANN was among the *last* to react (they delayed the addition of IPV6
addresses in the root for months), so I find ironic to quote them on
this matter. Their IPv6 factsheet can be found at
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-26oct07.htm

> Are we heading for an armmagedon?

Just for a big problem.

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