Dear Ahmed,<div><br></div><div>I think you're reading this the wrong way. The amount of allocated IPv4 space per country is not a fixed number, but rather an aggregation of the blocks of space that have so far been allocated to the different ISPs inside of a country. Since we've not run out of IPv4 space, and it's likely that the RIPE NCC will have space for at least 2 more years, that number doesn't really reflect anything else than a very commendable utilization rate of the resources allocated so far. On top of that, particularly the US and Japan numbers are skewed in a huge way because of the way IPv4 addresses were distributed until about 1995 (remember classfull routing?). Comparing numbers with for example France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands would give you a far more apples-to-apples comparison.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I fully agree more action is called for when it comes to deploying IPv6 in the Middle East, but the simple graph that describes this was used at the RIPE meeting two weeks ago - it shows the percentage of ISPs per country that have IPv6 resources, and what percentage actually uses those.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Remco van Mook<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Ahmed Abu-Abed <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ahmed@tamkien.com">ahmed@tamkien.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><font face="Calibri">Good day;</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri">Looking at the IPv4 depletion statistics, it looks like
some countries in the MENOG region are in a more critical
situation.</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Calibri">The latest data show the IANA IPv4 depletion date
varying between March 2011 (aggressive prediction, <a title="http://ipv4depletion.com/
CTRL + Click to follow link" href="http://ipv4depletion.com/" target="_blank">http://ipv4depletion.com/</a>) and August 2011
(conservative, <a title="http://www.ipv6forum.org
CTRL + Click to follow link" href="http://www.ipv6forum.org" target="_blank">www.ipv6forum.org</a> ) . In other words, we are
only <em>10 to 15 months away</em> from start of
depletion.</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Calibri">Geoff Huston, APNIC Researcher and Scientist, publishes
IPv4 stats on all countries. A snap shot is shown below, and I only included a
few MENOG countries as well as 3 non-MENOG members for comparison. If there is
demand for the full Excel spreadsheet I can send it.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri">Note that Egypt and Jordan are using more than 90% of
their allocated IPv4 addresses (I.e. /32s) to date. Jordan, being a RIPE region
member, will probably have more difficulty in getting new allocations as RIPE
has one of the higher burn rates.</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Calibri">One can only say its time to act on offering IPv6 to
subscribers. And this needs significant work on the core, OSS/BSS,
international gateway as well as access systems.</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Calibri">Regards,</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">-Ahmed</font><font face="Calibri">
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<td height="17" align="left"># 0. cc code</td>
<td align="right">US</td>
<td align="right">JP</td>
<td align="right">GB</td>
<td align="right">EG</td>
<td align="right">SA</td>
<td align="right">AE</td>
<td align="right">JO</td>
<td align="right">LB</td>
<td align="right">SY</td></tr>
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<td height="17" align="left"># 1. allocated /32s</td>
<td align="right">1506717952</td>
<td align="right">181588480</td>
<td align="right">75618072</td>
<td align="right">4842496</td>
<td align="right">3119104</td>
<td align="right">2282752</td>
<td align="right">415744</td>
<td align="right">397056</td>
<td align="right">472064</td></tr>
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<td height="17" align="left"># 2. % V4 pool</td>
<td align="right">35.08%</td>
<td align="right">4.23%</td>
<td align="right">1.76%</td>
<td align="right">0.11%</td>
<td align="right">0.07%</td>
<td align="right">0.05%</td>
<td align="right">0.01%</td>
<td align="right">0.01%</td>
<td align="right">0.01%</td></tr>
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<td height="17" align="left"># 3. % Allocated /32s</td>
<td align="right">49.08%</td>
<td align="right">5.92%</td>
<td align="right">2.46%</td>
<td align="right">0.16%</td>
<td align="right">0.10%</td>
<td align="right">0.07%</td>
<td align="right">0.01%</td>
<td align="right">0.01%</td>
<td align="right">0.02%</td></tr>
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<td height="17" align="left"># 4. /32s per user</td>
<td align="right">6.37</td>
<td align="right">1.9</td>
<td align="right">1.62</td>
<td align="right">0.27</td>
<td align="right">0.4</td>
<td align="right">0.62</td>
<td align="right">0.25</td>
<td align="right">0.42</td>
<td align="right">0.14</td></tr>
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<td height="17" align="left"># 5. /32s per capita</td>
<td align="right">4.86</td>
<td align="right">1.43</td>
<td align="right">1.23</td>
<td align="right">0.06</td>
<td align="right">0.11</td>
<td align="right">0.46</td>
<td align="right">0.06</td>
<td align="right">0.1</td>
<td align="right">0.02</td></tr>
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<td height="17" align="left"># 6. advertised /32s</td>
<td align="right">617060288</td>
<td align="right">113143701</td>
<td align="right">53255744</td>
<td align="right">4717312</td>
<td align="right">2616832</td>
<td align="right">2011136</td>
<td align="right">386560</td>
<td align="right">250368</td>
<td align="right">363520</td></tr>
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<td bgcolor="#ffff00" height="17" align="left"># 7. % cc allocated /32s</td>
<td bgcolor="#ffff00" align="right">40.95%</td>
<td bgcolor="#ffff00" align="right">62.31%</td>
<td bgcolor="#ffff00" align="right">70.43%</td>
<td bgcolor="#ffff00" align="right">97.41%</td>
<td bgcolor="#ffff00" align="right">83.90%</td>
<td bgcolor="#ffff00" align="right">88.10%</td>
<td bgcolor="#ffff00" align="right">92.98%</td>
<td bgcolor="#ffff00" align="right">63.06%</td>
<td bgcolor="#ffff00" align="right">77.01%</td></tr>
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<td height="17" align="left"># 8. % Advertised /32s</td>
<td align="right">36.15%</td>
<td align="right">6.63%</td>
<td align="right">3.12%</td>
<td align="right">0.28%</td>
<td align="right">0.15%</td>
<td align="right">0.12%</td>
<td align="right">0.02%</td>
<td align="right">0.01%</td>
<td align="right">0.02%</td></tr>
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<td height="17" align="left"># 9. Adv /32s per user</td>
<td align="right">2.61</td>
<td align="right">1.18</td>
<td align="right">1.14</td>
<td align="right">0.27</td>
<td align="right">0.33</td>
<td align="right">0.55</td>
<td align="right">0.24</td>
<td align="right">0.26</td>
<td align="right">0.11</td></tr>
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<td height="17" align="left"># 10. Adv /32 per capita</td>
<td align="right">1.99</td>
<td align="right">0.89</td>
<td align="right">0.87</td>
<td align="right">0.06</td>
<td align="right">0.09</td>
<td align="right">0.41</td>
<td align="right">0.06</td>
<td align="right">0.06</td>
<td align="right">0.02</td></tr>
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<td height="17" align="left"># 11. unadvertised /32s</td>
<td align="right">889657664</td>
<td align="right">68444779</td>
<td align="right">22362328</td>
<td align="right">125184</td>
<td align="right">502272</td>
<td align="right">271616</td>
<td align="right">29184</td>
<td align="right">146688</td>
<td align="right">108544</td></tr>
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<td height="17" align="left"># 16. users</td>
<td align="right">236410494</td>
<td align="right">95785082</td>
<td align="right">46804746</td>
<td align="right">17781752</td>
<td align="right">7899772</td>
<td align="right">3670350</td>
<td align="right">1642931</td>
<td align="right">953175</td>
<td align="right">3370875</td></tr>
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<td height="17" align="left"># 17. population</td>
<td align="right">309843374</td>
<td align="right">126867659</td>
<td align="right">61262757</td>
<td align="right">84273708</td>
<td align="right">29150453</td>
<td align="right">4953240</td>
<td align="right">6468233</td>
<td align="right">4056065</td>
<td align="right">20554120</td></tr>
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<td height="17" align="left"># 20. cc num</td>
<td align="right">840</td>
<td align="right">392</td>
<td align="right">826</td>
<td align="right">818</td>
<td align="right">682</td>
<td align="right">784</td>
<td align="right">400</td>
<td align="right">422</td>
<td align="right">760</td></tr>
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<td height="17" align="left"># 21. region num</td>
<td align="right">21</td>
<td align="right">30</td>
<td align="right">154</td>
<td align="right">15</td>
<td align="right">145</td>
<td align="right">145</td>
<td align="right">145</td>
<td align="right">145</td>
<td align="right">145</td></tr>
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<td height="17" align="left"># 23. cc name</td>
<td align="right"><b><font color="#b84747">USA</font></b></td>
<td align="right"><b><font color="#b84747">Japan</font></b></td>
<td align="right"><b><font color="#b84747">UK</font></b></td>
<td align="right"><b><font color="#b84747">Egypt</font></b></td>
<td align="right"><b><font color="#b84747">Saudi Arabia</font></b></td>
<td align="right"><b><font color="#b84747">UAE</font></b></td>
<td align="right"><b><font color="#b84747">Jordan</font></b></td>
<td align="right"><b><font color="#b84747">Lebanon</font></b></td>
<td align="right"><b><font color="#b84747">Syria</font></b></td></tr>
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