(and a little more yellowing: The terrible death of IPv4! Shock! Video! Hidden camera. Download without SMS)

But seriously, what the RIPE NCC public scared for so long (and the public didn’t take it seriously) happened.
The
“last / 8” phase has begun. RIPE NCC
has the last unallocated / 8 network (16 million addresses).
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What is this phase? Each LIR (local registrar) will be issued at / 22 (1024) addresses, even if it needs more.
And that's all. That's all. Read more here:
www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/ipv4-exhaustion . And PI-addresses (provider-independent) are no longer issued. Now.
Only the reserves of the LIRs themselves will remain (it is clear that in recent months all the hamsters have done nothing to themselves, but how long will this last?).
This means that in the near future there will be no new IPv4 addresses.
Roy will not be able to grow further. The old addresses will work as they worked, but the new ones ...
The number of this network is
185.0.0.0 / 8. So if you see IP's on 185 - know, this is eaten up last.
Note, we are talking about Europe and a piece of Asia (RIPE). The rest of the regions are still (seemingly?) Holding out, but they will all end soon. Obviously, there will be no transfer from other zones (maybe only from Africa, and they too, all of a sudden, have Internet access.)
What's next? Nobody gives exact forecasts, but:
1) Approximately within half a year (most likely, less) normal stocks of LIR addresses will end
2) Then they will go to the reserve address spaces freed up by consolidation.
3) “Own network” will become exotic, since precious IP on the network and Broadcast are lost there. All will try to pack up in large / 24 (or their / 22) networks.
4) Providers will stop issuing white IPs for free - and more will be those who natit.
5) The market of legal entities for which only a seal is of assets, and a PI / LIR-status block will grow (IP transfer between companies is not a sale and can be wrapped up by the RIPE NCC)
6) Increasingly, gateways will appear, which by domain name will proxy requests to different servers (by gray addresses and IPv6). Perhaps even as a separate service.
For those interested in:
on 8.8.11 it was free: 58932064 addresses. (58 million)
09/14/12 only 17532480 left (17 million)
How to count free addresses:
habrahabr.ru/post/96079And here is a list of _ ALL_ remaining free networks (the first network address, the second - the number of free addresses)
5.250.232.0 | 6144
5.254.128.0 | 98304
91.248.0.0 | 524288
176.126.40.0 | 120832
* * * 185.0.0.0 | 16777216 <- here it is, the last one. The rest is the reserves of the RIPE NCC and small scraps.
193.43.0.64 | 32
193.58.0.0 | 48
193.58.0.64 | 192
193.164.232.160 | 32
193.188.134.168 | 32
193.192.12.128 | 128
193.201.147.160 | 32
193.201.148.0 | 64
193.201.149.192 | 64
193.201.150.64 | 128
193.201.151.0 | 64
193.201.157.0 | 128
193.218.205.64 | 160
193.218.207.80 | 48
194.0.51.0 | 3328
194.42.55.32 | 128
194.117.52.0 | 128
194.153.156.64 | 192
194.153.157.192 | 64
195.60.81.192 | 128
195.60.83.64 | 32
195.60.83.160 | 32
195.60.84.0 | 128
195.60.87.128 | 128
195.60.93.0 | 64
195.60.93.192 | 64
195.60.95.0 | 128