Quite often we are approached by a company’s network administrator and asked to create a proposal to purchase IPv4 space. When we later relay the proposal to the network administrator’s senior management we are met with skepticism in many cases. The senior managers want to know why they should invest in what can easily be seen as ether – something you can’t touch, feel, or even see. After all, their internet and website are working fine today, so what will be different about tomorrow?
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This press release was released in March of 2012:

Accuro Consulting Posts Record IPv4 Transaction Volume; Announces Expansion to New RIRs.

Alexandria, Virginia – Accuro Consulting announced record March 2012 IPv4 Brokerage transaction volume today. Accuro saw increases in all IPv4 brokerage, sale, and lease transactions. Specific results included:

• IPv4 Lease and IPv4 Perpetual Lease volume rose 80% month-over-month.
• IPv4 Inventory Purchase volume rose 55% month-over-month.
• IPv4 Purchase volume rose 40% month-over-month.

Accuro attributes these increases to increased realization within the marketplace of the limitations of expeditious IPv6 implementation. Furthermore, many Accuro clients cited recent policies implemented by ARIN, the body responsible for allocating IPv4 addresses to network operators in North America, designed to further restrict the allocation of IPv4 addresses as a major reason for turning to the private market for their IP needs.
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The internet – particularly the North American part of the internet – is out of the most important building block required for its foundation….the IP address.  The internet is supposed to be this infinitely expandable utopia where everyone can build whatever interconnections they want and we can just keep expanding forever without any central bottleneck or resource depletion, but limited availability of IPv4 space has really popped that balloon.
The original IPv4 pool of addresses contains approximately 4.3 billion addresses.  On February 3, 2011 the last /8 address blocks were allocated to the Regional Internet Registries (also known as RIRs, these groups include ARIN, APNIC, RIPENIC, etc. and are the bodies that actually allocate IP addresses to end user networks within their geographic region) to allocate to their end users.  With that allocation, IPv4 addresses were officially exhausted.
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Over the past year, IP addresses have gone from being a mundane and boring backroom technical issue to one of the most discussed — and controversial — subjects affecting internet related companies.  Despite all this attention there is not only a shortage of well informed writing on the subject, but there is also a shortage of practical solution for today’s IP-poor infrastructure manager.

Accuro Consulting is the leader in helping companies find ways to manage their IP  address space and this blog, written by Accuro’s unparalleled stable of experts on everything IP-related, aims to be the first and most comprehensive source on the confusing world of IP address management.

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