"It's expected that IANA will distribute the last blocks of IPv4 in late 2010, and all of the five RIRs will run out of IPv4 address space about a year later. It is therefore important that the RIRs work closely together and with the rest of the Internet stakeholder community to ensure an efficient deployment of IPv6 worldwide and help safeguard the future development of the Internet. Our operations and procedures are fully audited by our members and third parties. As a result we are confident that they are appropriate, effective and beneficial for our members and the region we serve."

There has a been a marked reluctance to upgrade to IPv6. In March, a found that there had been no concrete business drivers for IPv6, so take-up had remained patchy. In the same month, showed that just 0.25 percent of Internet traffic was IPv6.