RIPE NCC has Approximately Four Million IPv4 Addresses Before Reaching Last /8 — RIPE Network Coordination Centre

Looks like next month we will possibly see RIPE start tapping into the last /8 IPv4 addresses. When that happens they’ll only hand out a /22 (1,024 addresses) even if you can legitimately request more. Also, you’ll have to already have an IPv6 allocation before they’ll give you that /22.

Future Internet growth depends on IPv6 deployment.

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