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IPv4 IANA Allocations Post Exhaustion

08/30/2010

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Global Policy for IPv4 Allocations by the IANA Post Exhaustion I have been working with a team of other concerned netizens on a new global policy proposal since the spring ARIN meeting in Toronto. It started as a lunch time conversation and grew from there. The idea was spurred by last year’s attempt to enact [...]

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Petitioning ARIN Policy Proposal 109

07/23/2010

[UPDATE 27-SEP-2011: Draft Policy ARIN-2010-14 has been implemented in ARIN NRPM 2011.4!] The History I first submitted policy proposal 109 in early February. After discussion and feedback on PPML, I revised the draft twice; ending up with v3 in early March. Apparently, that revision was submitted too late to make it onto the draft policy [...]

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Reduce and Simplify IPv4 Initial Allocations

01/15/2010

I find myself behind the ball again when it comes to posting info here on my blog. In the last part of 2009, I authored / co-authored and submitted two policy proposals for consideration to be included in the ARIN NRPM. As you may recall, my previous (and first) attempt at crafting policy was an [...]

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Address Space – MAC vs IP

04/07/2009

In response to offline comments on my February post “How Much IPv6 is There?” I am going to take a brief look at the comparative scale of the MAC address space to the IPv4 and IPv6 address spaces. The original (and thus most commonly encountered at this time) standard for Media Access Control (MAC) addresses [...]

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How Much IPv6 is There?

02/22/2009

While there may be over an octillion times more individual IPv6 addresses than there are IPv4 addresses; in terms of actually usability, IPv6 is somewhere in the range of 16 million to 17 billion times larger than IPv4. Much larger, yes; infinite, no.

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