2007 IPv4 Address Use Report
In 2007, the number of available IPv4 addresses went down
from 1300.65
million to 1122.85 million, a difference of 177.8 million
addresses.
The number of usable addresses is 3706.65 million, so on
January 1,
2007 we were at 64.9% utilization and a year later we're at
69.7%.
These figures are derived from the records published on the
FTP
servers of the five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs):
AfriNIC,
which gives out address space in Africa, APNIC (Asia-Pacific
region),
ARIN (North America), LACNIC (Latin American and the
Caribbean) and
the RIPE NCC (Europe, the former Soviet Union and the Middle
East).
There are two other ways to interpret the same data. The
first is
simply add up all the address space with a date indicating
that it was
given out in 2007. That number is 186.93 million addresses.
The third method is to compensate for ARIN's record keeping
peculiarities (see this Internet Protocol Journal article).
This
brings the total for 2007 to no less than 196.77 million,
the highest
number ever. The second-highest was 1991 with 189 million
addresses.
The 196.77 million figure is approxmately 19% higher than
the 2005 and
2006 numbers, which were largely the same. All numbers only
include
addresses that are still in use. For the first time in many
years, in
2007 one of the old class A blocks was returned to IANA:
block
46.0.0.0/8, 16.78 million addresses in size, is now part of
the global
pool of free address space. This accounts for most of the
difference
between the 177.8 and 196.77 numbers. The status of the 221
usable
blocks of 16.78 million address is now as follows:
Delegated to Blocks +/- 2007 Addresses (millions)
AfriNIC 2 +1 33.55
APNIC 26 +7 436.21
ARIN 27 452.98
LACNIC 6 +2 100.66
RIPE NCC 26 +4 436.21
Various 49 -1 822.08
End-user 42 -1 704.64
Available 43 -12 721.42
In addition to the 43 unused blocks (721.42 million
addresses) that
IANA holds, there is additional free space in the form of
addresses
delegated from IANA to the regional internet registries, but
not yet
further delegated by the RIR in question to an ISP or
end-user.
2006-01-01
2007-01-01
delegated delegated free delegated
delegated free
TO BY TO BY
AfriNIC 16.78 6.39 10.39 33.55 11.97
21.58
APNIC 318.77 297.23 21.54 436.21 366.87
69.34
ARIN 452.98 350.48 102.50 452.98 394.08
58.90
LACNIC 67.11 42.71 24.40 100.66 57.52
43.14
RIPE NCC 369.10 317.62 51.48 436.21 378.35
57.86
Total RIRs 1224.74 1014.43 210.31 1459.61 1208.79
250.82
Various 838.86 671.26 167.60 822.08 671.48
150.60
End-user 721.42 704.64 16.78 704.64 671.09
33.55
Available 922.74 16.78 905.96 721.42 16.78
704.64
Total 3707.76 2407.11 1300.65 3707.75 2568.14
1139.61
This view uncovers two inconsistencies: block 7.0.0.0/8 that
is part
of the free space according to the IANA IPv4 address space
overview
shows up as delegated to the US Department of Defense in
ARIN's
records. Net 14.0.0.0/8 is for the "public data
net" (see RFCs 3330
and 1700) so it's not part of the regular delegation system.
43.0.0.0/8 is delegated to "Japan Inet" by IANA.
Those delegations
used to be registered in ARIN's database but this block was
transferred to APNIC in 2007, where it does show up in the
whois
service, but not as part of the delegated address space in
the files
on the FTP server. The total of 3707.76 (or 3707.75) million
addresses
is slightly different from the 3706.65 maximum mentioned
earlier
because the latter excludes all RFC 1918 private address
space, the
former still includes 192.168.0.0/16 and 172.16.0.0/12.
The size of address blocks given out was increasing until
2005, but
now shows a downturn. The table below shows the number of
delegations
for a certain range of block sizes (equal or higher than the
first,
lower than the second value).
(2005 and earlier values from 2006-01-01 data, 2006 and 2007
values
from 2007-01-01 data. No correction for the ARIN accounting
method.)
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
2007
< 1000 474 547 745 1022 1309
1507 1830
1000 - 8000 1176 897 1009 1516 1891 2265
2839
8000 - 64k 868 822 1014 1100 1039 1192
1015
64k - 500k 262 163 215 404 309 419
395
500k - 2M 39 29 46 61 60 57
62
> 2M 5 5 6 7 18
17 24
The increase in large blocks has a very dramatic effect
while the
small blocks are insignificant, when looking at the millions
of
addresses involved:
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
2007
< 1000 0.16 0.18 0.25 0.35 0.44
0.51 0.63
1000 - 8000 4.47 3.23 3.45 4.49 5.07 5.83
6.93
8000 - 64k 12.81 11.35 14.00 15.99 15.46 18.01
15.67
64k - 500k 32.19 20.28 25.51 42.01 34.23 50.86
50.83
500k - 2M 24.64 21.30 31.98 44.63 41.63 46.69
45.50
> 2M 14.68 12.58 12.58 20.97 68.62
52.43 67.37
Despite the strong increase in the number of 2 million+
blocks and the
amount of address space given out in these blocks, the
average block
size has been going down because of the very large growth in
the
numbers of smaller blocks:
Year Blocks Addresses (M) Average block size
2000 2794 78.35 28043
2001 2824 88.95 31497
2002 2463 68.93 27985
2003 3035 87.77 28921
2004 4110 128.45 31252
2005 4626 165.45 35765
2006 5457 174.32 31945
2007 6165 186.92 30320
The 2568.14 million addresses currently in use aren't very
evenly
distributed over the countries in the world. The current top
15 is:
2007-01-01 2007-01-01 change Country
1 - US 1408.15 M 1366.53 M +3% United
States
2 - JP 141.47 M 151.27 M -6% Japan
3 (4) CN 135.31 M 98.02 M +38% China
4 (3) EU 120.35 M 115.83 M +4%
Multi-country in
Europe
5 - GB 83.50 M 93.91 M -11% United
Kingdom
6 - CA 73.20 M 71.32 M +3% Canada
7 - DE 72.46 M 61.59 M +18% Germany
8 - FR 67.79 M 58.23 M +16% France
9 - KR 58.86 M 51.13 M +15% Korea
10 - AU 33.43 M 30.64 M +9% Australia
11 (12) IT 24.04 M 19.14 M +26% Italy
12 (11) BR 23.46 M 19.27 M +22% Brazil
13 (16) MX 21.50 M 16.26 M +32% Mexico
14 (13) ES 20.42 M 18.69 M +9% Spain
15 - NL 19.89 M 18.08 M +10%
Netherlands
The -6% and -11% figures for the UK and Japan are once again
anomalies: the former is the missing 43.0.0.0/8 net and in
the latter
case, ARIN and RIPE both had a record for 25.0.0.0/8 in the
2007-01-01
data, but this was cleared up in the 2008-01-01 data.
Although the US still added more than 40 million new
addresses to its
immense existing stockpile, its growth was modest
percentage-wise and
it now holds 55% of the IPv4 address space in use, down from
57%. All
of the other countries in the top 15 except for Canada and
"EU" saw
their address use grow faster than the 7% average. This
brings the
total for the top 15 excluding the US to 35%, up from 34%.
The rest of
the world gets the remaining 10%, up from 9%.
See http://www
.bgpexpert.com/addrspace2007.php for a copy of this
report and links to the versions for 2006 and 2005.
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merit.edu wrote on 01/02/2008