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IPv4 Address Consumption Update - Predictions and Implications

Explore the current status of IPv4 address consumption, distribution framework, and future predictions. Learn about potential outcomes when RIRs exhaust their IPv4 address pools and implications for the Internet. Includes a predictive model and resources for further reading.

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IPv4 Address Consumption Update - Predictions and Implications

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  1. IPv4 Consumption Update Geoff Huston APNIC

  2. Address Distribution Framework IANA Unallocated Address Pool RIR-Administered Address Pools Allocated Address Pool Advertised Addresses Un-Advertised Addresses

  3. IPv4 - Current Status (July 2006)

  4. What’s the Question? • Some possibilities: • When do we ‘run out’ of IPv4 address space? • When will it be impossible to obtain an IPv4 address block? • When will it be impossible to obtain an IPv4 address block for any price? • When do we need to have IPv6 deployed? • When will the current IPv4 address distribution policies fail? • What would / might happen thereafter?

  5. My Question: • When will the first RIR exhaust its IPv4 address pool, and be unable to service a request for IPv4 address space?

  6. Address Distribution Framework 61 /8s available 36 /8s reserved IANA Unallocated Address Pool RIR-Administered Address Pools 18.4 /8s available 91.8 /8s unadvertised 48.7 /8s unadvertised Allocated Address Pool Advertised Addresses Un-Advertised Addresses

  7. Prediction Model • Total Address “demand” is expressed by the size of the allocated address pool • This is the sum of advertised and unadvertised address pools • So a total demand predictive model can be constructed from predictors of advertised and unadvertised address space

  8. Total Address Demand Advertised Address Pool Unadvertised Address Pool

  9. Address Demand Advertised Address Pool Unadvertised Address Pool

  10. Advertised Address Growth

  11. Unadvertised : Advertised Ratio

  12. Address Demand Prediction Model Total = Adv + Unadv Adv = ef(t) Unadv = Adv x g(t)

  13. Modelling RIR Address Pools

  14. Demand and Supply

  15. My Question: • When will the first RIR exhaust its IPv4 address pool, and be unable to service a request for IPv4 address space? Currently, the model predicts: March 2011

  16. How reliable is this prediction? • The model applies an exponential curve fits to recent (3 year) data and then undertakes forward extrapolation • Address consumption has been increasing over the past 24 months at a slightly faster than modelled exponential growth rate, so the model has been under-predicting for the past 6 months. • A better fit to recent data would be via an O(2) polynomial. • Are we actually modelling industry growth (consumption) or consumption plus some level of hoarding behaviours? • Either way, there are a lot of uncertainties associated with this consumption model

  17. What does this mean? • This model indicates that the current IPv4 address allocation framework will reach its logical conclusion in the 2009 – 2012 timeframe, when the first of the RIR’s unallocated address pools is exhausted

  18. What Then? • Some possibilities include: • Policy shifts in the address distribution function? • Emergence of markets that would mediate supply and demand of address transfer through a pricing function? • Further impetus to NAT deployment? • Impetus to IPv6 deployment? • The destruction of the Internet as we know it?

  19. Some Resources: • IPv4 Address Report http://ipv4.potaroo.net • Internet Protocol Journal, Vol. 8, No. 3 http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_8-3/ipv4.html • Internet Identifier Consumption http://www.caida.org/research/id-consumption/

  20. Thank You

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