APNIC announced that as of Friday, 15 April 2011, its IPv4 address pool reached the Final /8 IPv4 address block, bringing the Asia Pacific region to the last Stage of IPv4 exhaustion. This is a very important milestone on the IPv4 exhaustion process at a global level.

The NRO urges Internet community members to deploy IPv6 within their organizations. Deploying IPv6 is now a requirement to ensure continued growth and development of the Internet.

APNIC’s objective during this stage will be to provide IPv4 address space for new entrants to the market and for those deploying IPv6, under the final /8 policy. For more information on this policy, please refer to:

http://www.apnic.net/criteria

The other four Regional Internet Registries (AfriNIC, ARIN, LACNIC and the RIPE NCC) will continue to allocate IPv4 address space to their members in accordance with their community-based regional policies until their pools of available IPv4 addresses are depleted. All RIRs will continue to allocate IPv6 addresses as they have since 1999.

For more information on IPv6, visit http://www.nro.net/ipv6/, or your local RIR for information on how to get IPv6 address space.

NRO Secretariat