Adiel,

indeed this is quite a historic moment - that the LAST block of numbers used by the current internet have just been distributed to the five regional internet registries does signal the eminent end of an era (IPv4)  and should entrench the beginning of an even more exciting phase of the Internet (IPv6).

walu.

--- On Thu, 2/3/11, Adiel A. Akplogan <adiel@afrinic.net> wrote:

From: Adiel A. Akplogan <adiel@afrinic.net>
Subject: [kictanet] Last 5 /8s distributed
To: jwalu@yahoo.com
Cc: "IOZ" <ioz@internet.org.za>, "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Thursday, February 3, 2011, 7:23 PM

Dear Colleagues,

At a ceremony taking place today in Miami (http://www.nro.net/news/icann-nro-live-stream) 
the last /8s from the IANA IPv4 pool have been distributed to the RIRs and AfriNIC got 
102 /8. The rest has been allocated as followed:

103/8   APNIC      2011-02   whois.apnic.net     ALLOCATED
104/8   ARIN       2011-02   whois.arin.net      ALLOCATED
179/8   LACNIC     2011-02   whois.lacnic.net    ALLOCATED
185/8   RIPE NCC   2011-02   whois.ripe.net      ALLOCATED

You can still follow live the press conference currently going one right now.

The central IPv4 pool is gone. Let look at IPv6 the protocol that will support the next 
generation of the Internet.

Thanks.
______________________________________________________________________
Adiel A. Akplogan                         Tel. +230 403 51 00
Chief Executive Officer, AfriNIC          Fax: +230 466 67 58


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