Remaining IPv4 Address Space Drops Below 5%

[TheTrueCentrist]

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“This is a major milestone in the life of the Internet, and means that allocation of the last blocks of IPv4 to the RIRs is imminent,” states Axel Pawlik, Chairman of the Number Resource Organization (NRO), the official representative of the five RIRs. “It is critical that all Internet stakeholders take definitive action now to ensure the timely adoption of IPv6.”

 

[curlycool89]

nro.net/media/remaining-ipv4-address-below-5.html

“This is a major milestone in the life of the Internet, and means that allocation of the last blocks of IPv4 to the RIRs is imminent,” states Axel Pawlik, Chairman of the Number Resource Organization (NRO), the official representative of the five RIRs. “It is critical that all Internet stakeholders take definitive action now to ensure the timely adoption of IPv6.”

I don’t think anyone except the technically minded of us will know or care what this means.

Basically, we’re running out of IP addresses to allocate (for example, 174.132.95.58 is the IP address for Catholic.com. You don’t see this because when you type in catholic.com, your web browser first checks with a Domain Name Server (DNS), which spits back the number to your machine).

I’m not sure if you’d call this a “design flaw” of the implementation, but IPv4 only has a finite number of permissible IP addresses, and they’re running out of them. IPv6 is a newer implementation that has a lot more permissible addresses, but implementing it will take time. Older equipment may not support IPv6 for one.

It’ll be interesting to see how they fix this one.

 

[TheTrueCentrist]

I don’t think anyone except the technically minded of us will know or care what this means.

Basically, we’re running out of IP addresses to allocate (for example, 174.132.95.58 is the IP address for Catholic.com. You don’t see this because when you type in catholic.com, your web browser first checks with a Domain Name Server (DNS), which spits back the number to your machine).

I’m not sure if you’d call this a “design flaw” of the implementation, but IPv4 only has a finite number of permissible IP addresses, and they’re running out of them. IPv6 is a newer implementation that has a lot more permissible addresses, but implementing it will take time. Older equipment may not support IPv6 for one.

It’ll be interesting to see how they fix this one.

Yeah, its not really a pressing issue for end users, but if companies don’t act quickly, the article points out that we may see a rise in internet prices. This issue has been known about for years, and for some reason companies have been slow to convert to IPv6.

Its not really a “design flaw” of IPv4, just an inherent limitation; there are only a finite number of numbers possible in the IPv4 specifications, just as with IPv6. IPv4 has had a good run, but with more and more devices becoming internet enabled it can no longer keep up.

 

[curlycool89]

Yeah, its not really a pressing issue for end users, but if companies don’t act quickly, the article points out that we may see a rise in internet prices. This issue has been known about for years, and for some reason companies have been slow to convert to IPv6.

Its not really a “design flaw” of IPv4, just an inherent limitation; there are only a finite number of numbers possible in the IPv4 specifications, just as with IPv6. IPv4 has had a good run, but with more and more devices becoming internet enabled it can no longer keep up.

Design flaw was probably a little overboard. “Design limitation” would have probably have been better (although, some people may still see it as a flaw )

 

[alexander1230]

I don’t consider it a flaw either. It is limited by design and that’s why we get revised versions of the standard, just like we’ve been doing with pretty much everything else.

We were meant to move to IPv6 a LONG time ago but, the costs involved in doing so where prohibitively high.

Today, I don’t really buy the argument of “older equipment”. If you’ve got something this old, then it shouldn’t be online because it’s probably compromised. End users (home and companies) might indeed have old equipment but, the ISP can handle the translation for them and make it seamless.