IP address due to run out in 2010 According to Vint Cerf (ICANN)

[Peter]

Found the following article on BBC news web site:-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7068140.stm

Internet Service Providers urgently need to roll out the next generation of net addresses for online devices, internet pioneer Vint Cerf has said.

Every device that goes online is allocated a unique IP address but the pool of numbers is finite and due to run out around 2010.

A new system, called IPv6, has been awaiting roll out for 10 years.

Unless IPv6 is switched on in the coming years, some devices might not be able to go online, Mr Cerf has warned.

It has been known for a long time that ip's would run out but I didn't realize it was so soon. Looks like service providers etc need to pull their finger out and get moving with implementing ipv6.

 

[rudyhernandez]

Good article. Thanks.

Other interesting IPv6 facts:

IPv6 is able to support 2128 (about 3.4×1038) addresses, or approximately 5×1028 addresses for each of the roughly 6.5 billion people alive today.

The main feature of IPv6 that is driving adoption today is the larger address space: addresses in IPv6 are 128 bits long versus 32 bits in IPv4.

The drawback of the large address size is that IPv6 carries some bandwidth overhead over IPv4, which may hurt regions where bandwidth is limited

U.S. Government has specified that the network backbones of all federal agencies must deploy IPv6 by 2008, and spent the money to acquire a /16 block 281 trillion network addresses to start the deployment.

The Peoples Republic of China has a 5 year plan for deployment of IPv6 called the China Next Generation Internet.

Stay Informed.
Rudy
Logistik Labs
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[Shane]

Wow i didnt realise this would happen so soon!

 

[Barrucadu]

The thing I dislike about IPv6 is that it is so difficult to remember them! IPv4 is simple; Localhost is 127.0.0.1, my network IP is 192.168.0.3, my router's network IP is 192.168.0.1, simple. Having a 128-bit value makes them very complex.