-hph on Internet Addressing Policy

IANA IPv4 Address Pool Dips Below 10%

noreply@blogger.com (Hans Petter Holen) — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:26:00 +0000

We have now passwd the 90% mark on the IPv4 address pool.

While the internet will still continue to work as before - it has implications on future growth.

Maybe we need to start to think seriously about IPv6 ?

-hph

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Dear Colleagues,

With the distribution of two /8 blocks to APNIC, the Number Resource Organization (NRO) today announced that less than ten percent of available IPv4 addresses remain unallocated.

“This is a key milestone in the growth and development of the global Internet,” noted Axel Pawlik, Chairman of the NRO. “With less than ten percent of the entire IPv4 address range still available for allocation to RIRs, it is vital that the Internet community take considered and determined action to ensure the global adoption of IPv6. The limited IPv4 addresses will not allow us enough resources to achieve the ambitions we all hold for global Internet access. The deployment of IPv6 is a key infrastructure development that will enable the network to support the billions of people and devices that will connect in the coming years.”

You can view the NRO press release in its entirety at:

http://www.nro.net/media/less-than-10-percent-ipv4-addresses-remain-unallocated.html

Please contact <ncc@ripe.net> if you have any questions or comments.

Regards,

Paul Rendek

Head of External Relations and Communications RIPE NCC

Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address Space

noreply@blogger.com (Hans Petter Holen) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:04:00 +0000

As we are approaching the end of the free pool of IPv4 Addresses - a policy describing what to do with the last address block has been approved by the ICANN bord in March this year..

There are currently 32 unallocated unicast IPv4 /8s. 27 are in the IANA free pool and five are reserved under the Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address Space.

Implementing the AS Number Policy

noreply@blogger.com (Hans Petter Holen) — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:22:00 +0000

One might think that this simple change in global policy for AS numbers should be fairly easy to implement. But as this involves one of the key elements in the BGP routing protocol it realy has some impact on all routers on the internet.

This article from the RIPE NCC website highlights this challenge:
http://www.ripe.net/news/asn-32-pr2008.html

Make sure you push your vendor to implement the latest version of the Internet Protocols.

New Global Policy for Autonomous System Numbers

noreply@blogger.com (Hans Petter Holen) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:56:00 +0000

Autonomous System Numbers are used in the routing system in the Internet.

A simple description of an AS number is a number every ISP needs to refere to its own routes in the global routing table.

As not only ISPs needs AS numbers but every network with a separate routing policy, the original 2 byte AS nubers were not enough and the routing protocols has been updated to allow for 4 byte numbers.

The new global policy describes how ICANN/IANA will allocate blocks of 2 byte and 4 byte AS Numbers to the RIRs.

The ICANN board ratified this policy on July 31 2008: http://www.icann.org/en/topics/policy/update-aug08.htm#15

Re-elected to the ASO AC

noreply@blogger.com (Hans Petter Holen) — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:30:00 +0000

At the RIPE 55 meeting in Amsterdam in October I was relected to the Address council for a period of 3 more years: http://www.ripe.net/news/aso-2007.html

I made the following statement priort to the election -
http://www.ripe.net/info/resource-admin/aso2007/holen.html
- and thought I will keep it here for reference.

I have been an active participant in the RIPE community since the beginning of the 1990s when establishing one of the first commercial ISPs and LIRs in Norway. Prior to this I had a short career as node manager for the Norwegian UUCP node while working at the University of Oslo - but that is hardly relevant anymore.

I am strongly in favor of well documented procedures and open and transparent processes - and have done my best to contribute to these by taking active part in working-groups and task forces to document and improve policy documentation.

As previous chair of the LIR-wg and later Address Policy-wg I have been committed to open discussion and open process for policy development in RIPE. I am happy to see that the Address Policy-wg is now in good hands by my successors chairs of the workinggroup.

As member of the ICANN Address Supporting Organization Address Council since its formation - I have taken active part in bringing the RIRs and ICANN together in the accoord prior to the formation of the NRO. As chair of the address council I drafted several of the early procedures for conducting business for the address council. I have also been committed to keep the proceedings of the Address Council as open as possible by always suggesting opening up our meetings to RIR observers, ICANN observers and even suggesting public minutes being made available from informal meetings.

Today I believe the challenges of the Addressing community and thus the Address council are twofold:

First - We need to take active part in bringing the transition policy discussions forward in the regions.

This is both for the global policies concerning the remaining parts of the IPv4 space, but perhaps just as important the future role for the RIRs in maintaining the IPv4 address space.

I cannot offer you any solutions to how we should deploy IPv6 or how we should deal with the remaining IPv4 space. I may have opinions on what may work and what might not - and I do look forward to take part in fruitful discussions with the RIPE community on this matter.

What I can offer is my experience as a long time member of the community to bring the discussion forward and bring the RIPE point of view to the Address council.

As I have worked for small startup IPSs, the Incumbent, a multi national ISP, and several content providers and now a multi-national software and services company who offers application services on the Internet - I believe I can add most perspectives to the discussion and understand the different points of view.

I have also worked with regulatory issues - and appreciate the difference between "the regulatory way" and "the Internet tradition".

Secondly - The address council must maintain and improve an open and transparent way of acting. There are several small matters I would like to see the AC work further on:

getting the most recent procedures up on the ASO AC web
keeping tradition for open and transparent meetings
being active participants in the regions
show our presence at ICANN meetings together with the NRO

While my job today is mainly on the management side - I do still know how to set up BGP4 and analyze network performance. I am just now in a process to establish my company as a LIR and have started on a long term informal plan to prepare for IPv6. If my services are still wanted by the community I will gladly accept another 3 year term on the NRO Number Council aka the ICANN Address Council.

Welcome to my new blog on Internet Addressing Policy issues

noreply@blogger.com (Hans Petter Holen) — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:19:00 +0000

Two years ago I created a blog - but never started writing anything - now I think the time has come to be serious about sharing my thoughts and observations with the community on IP addressing issues.

I have been involved in IP addressing policy issues in the RIPE region since I was responsible for setting up the local internet registry for one of Norways first comercial ISPs in 1993. I was soon involved in policy work - simply because the policies at the time were not reflected in the documents in such a way that it was easy to learn and understand how to apply for and get IP address space.

Since then I have been a regular participants at RIPE meetings, for several years the chair of the Local IR working-group later the Address Policy working group before I stepped down from this job a while ago.

I was elected as one of the three representatives on the ICANN Address Supporting Organisation Address Council (ASO - AC) and have been chair and co-chair of the Council since its beginning and have just been relected to the council for a period of 3 years.