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Less than 5% of IPv4 addresses left says NRO
"This is a major milestone in the life of the Internet, and means that allocation of the last blocks of IPv4 to the RIRs is imminent," said NRO chairman Axel Pawlik. He continued by urging all Internet stakeholders to take action now by adopting IPv6, the "next generation" of the Internet Protocol, which offers infinitely more address space. IPv4 (32-bit) gives up to 4.3 billion addresses, whereas IPv6 (128-bit) provides 340 undecillion addresses (340 billion billion billion billion -- that's 36 zeros).
The NRO says that five blocks of IPv4 address will be distributed simultaneously to the five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) -- and it won't take long until they're gone based on current depletion rates. Should that occur without adequate preparation, the NRO worries of a "chaotic scramble for IPv6" that could spike Internet costs and threaten the stability and security of the global network.
User Comments (10)
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Adhmuz
on October 18, 2010 8:13 PM |
Thats not good... |
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JMMD
on October 18, 2010 8:16 PM |
Kick all the scammers, spammers and scum off the internet and we'll have plenty of addresses left. |
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Guest
on October 18, 2010 8:53 PM |
Those "scum" are operating botnets, i.e. running their nefarious software on the PCs of unsuspecting, average Joes like you and me. A bigger problem with IPv4 distribution is companies like where I work ... we have half a public class C network all to ourselves, and we *maybe* use 6 of those 128 IPs. |
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mattfrompa
on October 18, 2010 11:03 PM |
I once knew a teacher, (who has an AS in IT and teaches programming/robotics), believed that every machine should have it's own public IP address... |
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Guest
on October 19, 2010 9:49 AM |
There are so many solutions to this problem. I wouldn't be worried. |
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Lokalaskurar
on October 19, 2010 10:36 AM |
JMMD said: Kick all the scammers, spammers and scum off the internet and we'll have plenty of addresses left. Hear, hear! And destroy the botnets! |
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Burty117
on October 20, 2010 7:37 AM |
Na, its not as worrying as they make it out to be, although I do believe the adoption rate in IPv6 does need to improve Drumatically. |
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jaystimpson
on October 23, 2010 1:26 AM |
I think we need to make a switch over to Ipv6.... |
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surbey
on November 3, 2010 9:21 AM |
I saw this article a couple of weeks ago and was dumbfounded. The delay in switching to IP6 is completely ridiculous. IP6 can provide over 5,000 ip addresses per SQUARE INCH of the planet. Why on earth did we not start switching THE DAY THE PROTOCOL WAS STANDARDIZED?!. |
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Archean
on November 3, 2010 10:50 AM |
Kick all the scammers, spammers and scum off the internet and we'll have plenty of addresses left. You forgot to add 'pron' into this 'should be kicked' list. |
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