Is today the day?

As of this morning, there were 164,096 remaing IPv4 addresses in ARIN’s pool, comprised of 101 /23s and 439 /24s.  This is somewhere between a /17 and /16, if expressed as contiguous space.  Given that on an average day, ARIN can easily allocate this amount, it’s likely that today all of this address space could be allocated, or one of the applicants in the queue opts to join the waiting list.  In either scenario, it’s game over.   At the time of writing, there is just over half an hour before ARIN closes for the day, so very soon we’ll find out whether today was the day or not.  Watch this space…