A presentation given at the APNIC Services session at APRICOT 2015 on Wednesday, 4th March 2015.

1. Registration Services
Update
Guangliang Pan

2. IPv4 transfers related to
final /8 (103/8)

3. How many IPv4 transfers involved
final /8 (103/8)?
3
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
2011 2012 2013 2014 Total
non-103/8
103/8

4. How many M & As involved final /8
(103/8)?
4
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
2011 2012 2013 2014 Total
non-103/8
103/8

5. How many final /8 delegations have
been transferred?
5
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
2011 2012 2013 2014 Total
Delegations
Transfers

6. How many of them transferred within
a year?
6
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
2011 2012 2013 2014
M & A
Transfers

7. APNIC Hostmaster practice
• Before making an IPv4 delegation from the final /8 pool, APNIC
Hostmasters will ask the requester to confirm not to transfer the
resource within one year because the delegation is based on
their 12-month requirements
• If a Member comes back to request IPv4 transfer within one year,
APNIC Hostmasters will reject their transfer request according to
their confirmation in the original request
• This practice also applies to the delegations from the recovered
IPv4 pool
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8. Conclusion – from the last 4 years
• Approx 18% of the IPv4 transfers involved final /8 range
• Approx 18% of Mergers and Acquisitions (M & A) involved final
/8 range
• Less than 2% of the final /8 delegations are being transferred
via IPv4 transfer and M & A
• Very few transfers happened within a year after the original
delegation
• The current Hostmaster procedure works well in practice
www.apnic.net/transfer
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9. APNIC Resource Pool
Status

10. APNIC ASN free pools
10
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
2-byte 4-byte

11. APNIC IPv4 current allocation pools
11
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
Final /8 pool Recovered Pool
Free
Allocated

12. APNIC IPv6 sparse allocation pools
• Since Oct 2006, APNIC has started sparse allocations from the
following pools:
– 2400::/13 used for small, medium and large allocations – allocations
in this pool can grow up to /25 at this stage
– 2408::/13 used for very large allocations - allocations in this pool can
grow up to /17 at this stage

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