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Africa Leads In IPv6 Adoption

Posted by timothy on from the rising-tide-all-boats dept.

Ian Lamont writes "The recent news that China will run out of IPv4 addresses in a few years points to slow adoption of IPv6 in some developed countries. Now it turns out that the largest number of networks displaying new IPv6 address blocks are registered through AfriNIC, which services networks in Africa and the Indian Ocean. While AfriNIC has a smaller installed base than other regions, many countries in Africa are showing rapid growth in terms of online connectivity."

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  1. More Nigerian spam mail because of more computers by ilovesymbian · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dear sirs, I am a prince of a country that's caught in war between using ipv4 and ipv6. If you deposit $100,000 I will promise you returns of 10,000 million IPv6 IP addresses. Please send me your account number, SSN, credit card details and other important detail that will help me facilitate the transaction.

    Yours lovingly,

    His Royal Highness Prince of some Nigerian tribe

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  2. Simple by SlashDev · · Score: 5, Informative

    because most African networks are being created and not migrated.

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    1. Re:Simple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      because most African networks are being created and not migrated.

      Of course. African networks are non-migratory.

  3. Makes sense by mangu · · Score: 5, Informative

    Considering that African nations have each a small fraction of the 16 million addresses that the GE corporation has, they need something better than NAT.

    1. Re:Makes sense by neoform · · Score: 5, Informative

      That, and the lack of existing infrastructure that needs to be changed in order to meet IPv6. There probably wasn't a huge "switch" phase involved in having IPv6 deployed, whereas the western world is on IPv4, switching to IPv6 actually takes a lot of work.

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  4. Re:The US should pay attention by linhares · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, after Congress rejected the bailout, the shares of Campbell Soup went up.

    And I'm NOT making this up!

  5. Being first has no benefit by Wesley+Felter · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You need to enable IPv6 when IPv4 runs out around 2011 so that you can communicate with IPv6-only users. There's no benefit to turning it on early (unless you want to do debugging for vendors). Articles about how some country or another is "ahead" or "behind" in IPv6 are misguided because they're measuring the wrong thing. What is important is not who is running IPv6 today, but who is buying IPv6-capable equipment today so that they can turn it on "for free" in 2011.

    Also, the summary propagates the old China IPv4 myth; in reality China will run out of IPv4 at the same time as the rest of the world.

  6. Re:The US should pay attention by linhares · · Score: 5, Funny

    C'mon moderators, THIS SHIT IS NOT FUNNY!

    From The Economist:

    The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished down by 7%, and suffered its biggest-ever points loss. Perhaps fittingly in an economy that is in danger of sliding into depression, the only stock among the 500 in the S&P index that finished higher was Campbell's Soup.

  7. Simple solution by saigon_from_europe · · Score: 5, Funny

    I really don't know what is this fuss about lack of IP numbers.

    If we already write them as xxx.yyy.zzz.ttt, why we stop at 255? We could simply go up to 999! Even better, we could use the letters too. Imagine all the possibilities if we take separately lower case and upper case!

    And finally, when we exhaust these too, we could move to unicode.

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