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One Step Closer to IPv6

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the many-steps-long-path-lots-of-numbers dept.

gbjbaanb writes "IPv6 came a step closer yesterday as ICANN added IPv6 host records to the root DNS servers, reports the BBC. 'Paul Twomey, president of Icann which oversees the addressing system, told the BBC News website there was a need to start moving to IPv6. "There's pressure for people to make the conversion to IPv6," he said. "We're pushing this as a major issue." The reason for the urgency, he said, was because the unallocated addresses from the total of 4,294,967,296 possible with IPv4 was rapidly running out. "We're down to 14% of the unallocated addresses out of the whole pool for version 4," he said. Projections suggest that this unallocated pool will run out by 2011 at the latest.'"

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  1. There's a huge amount of IPv4 addresses still left by bytesex · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If only Apple and IBM and stuff were to give back some of their A network space.

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  2. Re:Sad by KanjiMonster · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I mean, if those companies complain, who cares. They wouldn't get such large and prestigious allocations in an IPv6 network anyways. So what's the difference.
    Not relatively, but absolutely.
    Plan is for *consumers* to get a /48 allocation, thats 2^80 IPs. Thats 2^48 Internets! ISPs will get from /22 to /19, dependent on their size.