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The Five Stages of IPv4 Exhaustion Grief

By Dean Pemberton – Task Force Technical Convenor Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) the organisation who allocates IP addresses to European organisations has announced this week that they are now allocating from their final block of IPv4 addresses.  Members can still be allocated addresses, but they are only allocated a maximum of 1024. […]

Palmerston North IXP upgraded to support IPv6

Wellington-based broadband provider CityLink has announced that it has upgraded the Palmerston North Internet exchange to support both IPv4 and IPv6 peering announcements. In a post to the NZNOG mailing list, a CityLink representative says all five of the New Zealand peering points operated by Citylink are now dual-stacked. Those wanting to add IPv6 peering […]

Europe officially runs out of IPv4 addresses

RIPE NCC now allocating IPv4 address space from the last /8 netblock, says Ars technica magazine “Late last week, the RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) announced it is down to its last “/8” worth of IPv4 addresses. This means that it is no longer possible to obtain new IPv4 addresses in Europe, […]

Task Force releases ‘metrics’ report, highlighting state of IPv6 in New Zealand

The New Zealand IPv6 Task Force has today released its latest ‘metrics’ report, showing the state and extent of the nation’s IPv6 Internet.  A PDF version of the report is available below: IPv6 Metrics Analysis – Report #1: Q2 2012 The Report highlights a number of key trends, including: New Zealand’s service providers show a […]

RadioNZ to interview Vint Cerf – tune in!

Next week, IPv6 cheerleader Vint Cerf will be interviewed by Radio New Zealand  about the battle for control of the net and why he believes the issue of state sovereignty is at the core of the Internet’s problems. To listen, tune into RNZ’s Nine to Noon programme on Tuesday 7 August at 9.05am. www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon Cerf […]