On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 3:09 PM, S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com> wrote:
> Hi Ish,
>
> I am not sending this message to Shelly as she recommended to "be
> non-technical in your answer".
>
> At 03:11 05-05-2015, Ish Sookun wrote:
>>
>> As far as I know, nowhere it is published how much IPv4 addresses are
>> allocated to Mauritius and how much are currently used. Neither we have any
>> sort of data publicly available that could be used to project the number of
>> Internet-enabled devices activated every month / year.
>>
>> So, are we going to use up all IPv4 addresses (allocated to Mauritius) in
>> 1 month, 1 year, 10 years? Who can answer that?
>> Saying we will no more be able to use Internet once the IPv4 addresses are
>> used up, is like announcing doomsday; though the date of doomsday isn't
>> known to anyone.
>
>
> I'll provide some background information so that you can determine whether I
> have any experience in matters related to IPv4 addresses. There were three
> global policy proposals for post-exhaustion IPv4, the first two failed. The
> proposal which I co-authored and discussed achieved consensus at the global
> level. That proposal has been ratified by the ICANN Board and it has been
> implemented as an ICANN policy. I commented about a consultation about IPv6
> in Mauritius and I provided the statistics published in the document at
> https://www.icta.mu/documents/outcome_IPv6.pdf
>
> There are well over one million IPv4 addresses allocated to companies in
> Mauritius. It is possible for companies in Mauritius to get more IPv4
> addresses. There are a few people in the world who work on answering the
> question of when there won't be any IPv4 addresses left for allocation. I
> agree that it is not good to announce a doomsday without providing a date
> for it.
>
Concerning the prediction date for the depletion of IPv4 in the
African and Indian Ocean, I believe that I'll be able to answer that
in an official capacity soon :)
Received on Tue May 05 2015 - 11:28:04 PST