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IP Shortage In Asia Just Myth, Says APNIC

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the billions-and-billions dept.

rekkanoryo writes "News.com is carrying a story in which the Director General of APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) says that the "shortage" of IP addresses in Asia is a total myth. There's also some talk of IPv6 in this article."

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  1. Not doom but problem by UnknowingFool · · Score: 4, Informative
    Although the sky isn't quite falling, I think that a few years ago, the situation looked more precarious than it does today. Back then it was predicted that everyone would have broadband acess and a superfast computer and you could surf the web on your cell phone by now. With 22 million addresses, China alone has 1.3 billion people so the situation looked dire.

    The reality is that broadband adoption is slower than anticipated and not everybody in Asia wants or can afford a computer. Not everyone who gets a cell phone wants to surf on it.

    The implementation of IPv6 is to prevent the problem before it occurred.

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    Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
  2. ipv6 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    You could argue there's a shortage of IPv4 addresses everywhere as long as it involves more than the most trivial amount of effort or any cost to get hold of them.

    IPv6 is very easy to set up and run on top of ipv4. More and more people are doing it and the most effort you have to do it enable the option in your kernel.

    Running ipv6 on top of your existing ipv4 address is as simple as these 5 shell commands

    http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/configu ring-ipv6to4-tunnels.html

  3. Allocations by gclef · · Score: 4, Informative

    What people seem to be missing in this is that there's a lot of space still around (100 /8's if the Director is to be believed), which is not allocated to *anyone* right now. If Asias use of IP space grows more rapidly than the US', then APNIC will simply ask for new allocations more often than ARIN would.

    I can see running out of space being a concern during the 'net boom, since routing tables and IP space requests were growing exponentially during that time. But, the growth of the routing table has slowed down from that rate (see http://bgp.potaroo.net/), so the time when we'll run out has moved much farther back. We'll need to move to v6 eventually, sure, but I don't think it'll happen for 10 or so years.