<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Well said.<div><br></div><div>Owen</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Apr 16, 2011, at 2:06 AM, Ahmed Abu-Abed wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div><font color="#000080" face="Calibri">Dear colleagues,</font></div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Calibri"></font> </div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Calibri">APNIC, the IP address registry for the
region stretching from Pakistan to Japan and down to Australia/NZ,
announced yesterday it has reached the final /8 IPv4 address block, which
is practical IPv4 depletion for most ISPs.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Calibri"></font> </div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Calibri">From now on APNIC will highly
restrict the amounts of IPv4 addresses it issues, with ONLY one block 1024
addresses per ISP, and this will be the <em>last</em> IPv4 address block given
to each ISP.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Calibri"></font> </div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Calibri">Expect IPv6 only services to start come
up, <em>so even if you have enough IPv4</em> <em>addresses</em> or thinking
of implementing an IPv4 Carrier Grade NAT in your network, you will
still need to start IPv6 migration all the way to the
subscribers.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Calibri"></font> </div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Calibri">
<div><font color="#000080" face="Calibri">The Middle East's address registry, RIPE
NCC, is expected to reach a similar situation soon when RIPE reaches its final
/8.</font></div></font></div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Calibri"></font> </div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Calibri">Best Regards,</font></div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Calibri">-Ahmed</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Calibri">Ahmed Abu-Abed, <font size="2">P.Eng.</font><br>VP, IPv6
Forum Jordan</font></div>
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