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Is it possible that we could be running out of IP addresses? If it’s true, what does that mean for future development of the Internet? The scare is actually reality based upon the version of Internet protocol the Web is currently running on, IPv4. However, there is an answer as WebProNews Reporter Abby Prince explains. You’ll also hear from John Curran the Chairman of the Board at the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) only on WebProNews.
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Why not create stimulated virtual reality boxes in which you can sort by category the whole infrastructure of ipv4 thus making way for ipv6 to follow through.
This is a problem that already has a solution, many companies in the computer and technology industry like to scare people with this type of un-finish information to generate buzz or to sell you some kind of product you don’t really need.
Come on… Y2K anyone?
Yours truly,
Luis Galarza
Internet Marketing For The Poor
I first heard of IPv6 back in 99 I think it was when I was in school for Networking. It has been known for many years that a switch would at some time happen. I will agree with many of the comments above that the average user has nothing to even think or worry about. All in all the transition over will be a smooth one.
DON’T WORRY !!! All is OK.
I have been an ISP since 1996 and all that time, we were aware the IP address space was running out; hence the requirement for new IP Protocol Ad. Today all Operating Systems are both IPv6 & IPv4 compatible. For the average person using the Internet, the change from IPv4 to IPv6 will go seemless and unnoticed.
The audio report, we all just listen to, is not quite correct with alls its facts, for example goto Wikepedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6 for the full story, however I have cut and pasted some of the story below for those who want a quick summary:
By the early 1990s, it was clear that the change to a classless network introduced a decade earlier was not enough to prevent IPv4 address exhaustion and that further changes to IPv4 were needed. By the beginning of 1992, several proposed systems were being circulated and by the end of 1992, the IETF announced a call for white papers (RFC 1650) and the creation of the “IP, the Next Generation” (IPng Area) of working groups.
IPng was adopted by the Internet Engineering Task Force on July 25, 1994 with the formation of several “IP Next Generation” (IPng) working groups. By 1996, a series of RFCs were released defining IPv6, starting with RFC 2460. (Incidentally, IPv5 was not a successor to IPv4, but an experimental flow-oriented streaming protocol intended to support video and audio.)
It is expected that IPv4 will be supported alongside IPv6 for the foreseeable future
It is common to see examples that attempt to show that the IPv6 address space is extremely large. For example, IPv6 supports 2128 (about 3.4×1038) addresses, or approximately 5×1028 addresses for each of the roughly 6.5 billion (6.5×109) people alive today. In a different perspective, this is 252 addresses for every star in the known universe – a million times as many addresses per star than IPv4 supported for our single planet.
Estimates as to when the pool of available IPv4 addresses will be exhausted vary widely, and should be taken with caution. In 2003, Paul Wilson (director of APNIC) stated that, based on then-current rates of deployment, the available space would last until 2023. In September 2005 a report by Cisco Systems reported that the pool of available addresses would be exhausted in as little as 4 to 5 years. As of November 2007, a daily updated report projected that the IANA pool of unallocated addresses would be exhausted in May 2010, with the various Regional Internet Registries using up their allocations from IANA in April 2011. This report also argues that, if assigned but unused addresses were reclaimed and used to meet continuing demand, allocation of IPv4 addresses could continue until 2017
In February 1999, The IPv6 Forum, a world-wide consortium of worldwide leading Internet vendors, Industry Subject Matter Experts, Research & Education Networks was founded to promote the IPv6 technology and raise the market and industry awareness.
To drive the deployment of IPv6, regional and local IPv6 Task Forces were created.On 20 July 2004 ICANN announced that the root DNS servers for the Internet had been modified to support both IPv6 and IPv4.
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I think that Ver6 will work just fine, the switch over to 6 should be pretty seamless. I don’t see many problems. With 30 years in this business, we should be thankful that we have the foresight to solve these problems before they happen
What a lot of fuss over nothing!
Anyone involved in networking has known for ate least 10 years that we are running out of IP address’ IP6 was proposed years ago - MS have built it into Vista and if they do that, then you can be sure it’s on the way sometime soon.
1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 is a BIG number
But here in my country it’s quite common to tell nonsense jokes on April 1st
Most people in the web-programming field have been aware of IP6 for many years. It’s the general public that are just waking up to it now.
I knew it would happen sometime. Very interesting to confirm it nonetheless.
Interesting stuff, but why would colleges and universities need to worry ?
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