Five Security Flaws in IPv6

Leo Vegoda leo.vegoda at icann.org
Mon May 14 08:03:16 CEST 2007


On 13 May 2007, at 10:58pm, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

> On 13-mei-2007, at 21:17, Leo Vegoda wrote:
>
>> If it's not in an RIR database it's because the registry is  
>> maintained by the IANA. You can find the registry at:
>
>> http://www.iana.org/assignments/public-data-network-numbers
>
> Ah!
>
> Apparently, the highest address in use is 14.0.0.128, so that  
> leaves the other 16777087 addresses unused...

Yes. There's a good chance of the vast bulk of this address space  
becoming available to an RIR at some point.

> Wasn't X.25 supposed to be killed off in 2005?

I believe that there are still networks making use of X.25, although  
in many cases they appear to be closed internets.

Regards,

-- 
Leo Vegoda
IANA Numbers Liaison




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