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Stuart Corner
Wednesday, 14 July 2010 17:29
…Is that they are expected to run out in exactly 12 months from today, on 14 July 2011. The bad news is a forecast exhaustion date only nine months hence.
According to Kate Lance, communications manager of consultancy IPV6Now, "In exactly 365 days from now, 14 July 2011, all IANA [Internet Assigned Numbers Authority] IPv4 addresses will have been allocated to the regional Internet registries, says APNIC chief scientist Geoff Huston." [In his IPv4 address depletion counter]
She adds: "Unbelievably, that's the good news. The bad news is that April 2011 is Stephan Lagerholm's IPv4 exhaustion estimate: only 9 months away...
Not that Lance thinks there is much good news at all on the imminent depletion of IPv4 addresses and the transition to their replacement, IPv6, for "any organisation whose business model relies on large numbers of cheap IPv4 addresses."
"Do you think governments will fix this for you?" she asks. "They're too busy trying to catch up themselves. [And] the Internet industry is doing no better. In general it has shamefully lagged behind with IPv6."
Her conclusion: "Large or small business: you're on your own during this amazing transition from IPv4 to IPv6."
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