Summary

  • RIPE NCC's 23 October update puts 806 LIRs on its IPv4 Waiting List, 20 more than the 786 in its 6 October update. The first LIR in line has waited 487 days, up from 476.
  • The registry's board restricted acquisition of additional LIR accounts from 29 September. The queue still follows separate eligibility and supply rules: an eligible LIR may receive one /24.

The October member update gives RIPE NCC's IPv4 waiting room a new headcount: 806 LIRs. Its previous update counted 786. The LIR at the front has now been there 487 days, against 476 in the earlier snapshot. The queue gained 20 places while the front of it aged another 11 days. A waiting room can grow even after the registry locks a side door.

That door was the ability of an existing member to acquire another LIR account. The Executive Board's restriction took effect on 29 September, including applications already in progress. The Board described an administrative burden from multiple accounts and left the related IPv4 allocation questions to community policy discussion. It did not announce extra recovered IPv4 space for the queue.

The waiting-list rule is blunt: an LIR that has never received an IPv4 allocation from RIPE NCC may request one /24, or 256 addresses. The October update also records 20,717 LIR accounts and 20,031 members. Those totals describe the registry's account base; the 806 describes a particular queue. The two updates report snapshots, not a log of joins, exits and allocations between them.

This is the latest published monthly queue reading after the account restriction. It gives operators a practical scorecard: demand at the allocation gate remains visible, and the board's account rule has no automatic lever on the recovered-address supply. The next update can show whether the line shrinks. For now, the front ticket says 487 days.