Internet Number Resource Status Report Prepared by Regional Internet Registries AFRINIC, APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC, RIPE NCC
As of 31 March 2021 Internet number resource status report 2 All IPv4 Address Space
Distribution of the 256 /8s
APNIC ARIN 45 36 LACNIC AFRINIC 9 4
RIPE NCC 35
Experimental, 16 Central Registry 92 Local Identification, 1 Loopback, 1 Multicast, 16 Private Use, 1 Internet number resource status report 3 Total IPv4 Addresses Managed by each RIR
In terms of /8s
120.00
99.72 100.00
80.00
60.00 53.15 49.21
40.00
20.00 11.37 7.23 0.00 AFRINIC APNIC ARIN LACNIC RIPE NCC Internet number resource status report 4 Available IPv4 Space in each RIR
In terms of /8s
0.25
0.2
0.15
0.23 0.1
0.05 0.11
0.02 0.00 0.00 0 AFRINIC APNIC ARIN LACNIC RIPE NCC Internet number resource status report 5 IPv4 Space issued by RIRs
In terms of /8s, how much space has each RIR issued per year?
3.00
2.50
2.00
1.50
1.00
0.50
0.00 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
AFRINIC APNIC ARIN LACNIC RIPE NCC 6
IPv4 Transfers
(exclusive M&A) Internet number resource status report 7 Intra-RIR IPv4 Transfers
Number of transfers per year
3000
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
AFRINIC APNIC ARIN LACNIC RIPE NCC Internet number resource status report 8 Intra-RIR IPv4 Transfers
Number of addresses transferred by year
45
40
35
30
25
Millions 20
15
10
5
0 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
AFRINIC APNIC ARIN LACNIC RIPE NCC Internet number resource status report 9 Inter-RIR IPv4 Transfer
Total number of IPv4 transfers between RIRs
IPv4 Transfers TO AFRINIC APNIC ARIN LACNIC RIPE NCC
AFRINIC 0 0 0
APNIC 0 56 0 94
ARIN 0 341 1 342
LACNIC IPv4 Transfers FROM IPv4 Transfers 0 0 9 8
RIPE 0 102 124 2 NCC Internet number resource status report 10 Inter-RIR IPv4 Transfer
Total number of IPv4 addresses transferred between RIRs
IPv4 Addresses Transferred TO AFRINIC APNIC ARIN LACNIC RIPE NCC
AFRINIC 0 0 0
APNIC 0 187.65K 0 1.330M
ARIN 0 19.173M 256 9.199M
LACNIC 0 0 26.36K 19.97K
RIPE IPv4 Addresses Transferred FROM Transferred Addresses IPv4 0 2.064M 750.09K 2048 NCC 11
IPv6 Internet number resource status report 12 All IPv6 Address Space
How much has been allocated to the RIRs?
Allocations to RIRs since October 2006 IETF Reserve /1, /2+ RIR IPv6 Prefix AFRINIC 2c00::/12 /0 APNIC 2400::/12 ARIN 2600::/11 LACNIC 2800::/12 RIPE NCC 2a00::/11
Link-Scoped Unicast /10 Unique Local Unicast /7 Global Multicast /8 Unicast /3
IANA Reserve 504 /12s
/12 IETF Reserve /23
6to4 /16
IANA Reserve /12- Allocated to RIRs before Oct 2006 /17, /18+ Internet number resource status report 13 IPv6 Allocations Issued by RIRs
How many prefixes has each RIR allocated per year?
3000
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Internet number resource status report 14 Total Allocated IPv6 Space
Total size of IPv6 space (in /32s) that each RIR has allocated
180,000 154,014 160,000
140,000
120,000
100,000 90,558
80,000 56,489 60,000
40,000
15,693 20,000 9,731
0 AFRINIC APNIC ARIN LACNIC RIPE NCC Internet number resource status report 15 IPv6 Assignments Issued by RIRs
How many prefixes has each RIR assigned per year?
900
800
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Internet number resource status report 16 Total Assigned IPv6 Space
Total size of IPv6 space (in /48s) that each RIR has assigned
12,000,000
9,857,748 10,000,000
8,000,000
6,000,000
4,000,000 3,574,331
2,000,000 1,119,197
5,616 200,637 0 AFRINIC APNIC ARIN LACNIC RIPE NCC Internet number resource status report 17 Percentage of Members with IPv6 in each RIR
120% Members with IPv6 only Members with IPv4 and IPv6
100% 1.6%
80%
1.7% 0.8% 9.1% 60% 0.6% 96.2% 40% 65.1% 67.2% 50.4% 50.9% 20%
0% AFRINIC APNIC ARIN LACNIC RIPE NCC 18
AS Numbers Internet number resource status report 19 AS Numbers
All ASNs
RIPE NCC 32-bit
Special Purpose 32-bit RIPE NCC 16-bit ARIN Unallocated 16-bit 32-bit
APNIC ARIN APNIC 32-bit 32-bit 16-bit
LACNIC 16-bit Special Purpose 16-bit LACNIC AFRINIC 16-bit 32-bit AFRINIC 32-bit Internet number resource status report 20 ASN Assignments by RIRs
How many ASNs has each RIR issued per year?
32-bit 3000 16-bit
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Internet number resource status report 21 Total ASNs Assigned by each RIR
45,000 32-bit 16-bit 40,000
35,000 15,140 30,000 6,353
25,000
20,000
15,000 10,969 25,879 24,968 10,000 9,417 5,000 1,157 8,097 1,016 3,063 0 AFRINIC APNIC ARIN LACNIC RIPE NCC Internet number resource status report 22 References
• NRO Statistics www.nro.net/statistics
• IANA Number Resources https://www.iana.org/numbers 23
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