24 Jul
2013
24 Jul
'13
8:16 p.m.
* Gert Doering
(The /22 in the "last /8 policy" was chosen to ensure that every single LIR in existence today can get their /22, and we'll still have some left - the /8 will last for 16.000 /22s, and the number of active LIR is still below 9000 today)
It's last much longer, actually. Since depletion, the NCC has recovered 922,824 IPv4 addresses (outside of 185/8), and the NCC's one-fifth share of the IANA Recovered IPv4 Pool currently numbers 3,820,953 addresses. Put together, this gives us another 4,632 /22s to give to new LIRs. When taking these not-185/8 (yet still covered by the last /8 policy) pools into account, it is actually the case that the "last /8" pool has seen a net *growth* since the NCC hit IPv4 depletion. :-) Tore