Today’s news is that yesterday ARIN went below 3 /8s left.  As their announcement shows, this means the RIR has now moved from Phase 1 to Phase 2, which has slightly different rules on allocation.    Block requests for /16 or larger are now going to be processed in strict order, and LIRs will have 60 days to pay up and not 90 (for IPv4 blocks only).  Also unused blocks are going to be put back into the pool earlier, after three months and not six.

Interesting news, and the squeeze is on.  Let’s see how it pans out…