James Knott wrote:
If someone were to start an ISP today, in much of the world, they would not be able to get much of an IPv4 address block, if any.
Since 2012, RIPE policy has been a single one-time /22 allocation for new LIRs. In 2011, RIPE received the last /8, which was exhausted in April of last year. Since then, recovered IP addresses have been added to the pool of available addresses, currently about nine million. The most recent projections estimate that to last about two years. https://labs.ripe.net/Members/wilhelm/so-long-last-8-and-thanks-for-all-the-... -- Per Jessen, Zürich (18.2°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org