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 maartenaElmoPremium
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Re: It'll be a slow process said by vpoko:But it's got to get going, we WILL run out of IPv4 addresses real soon. Actually, the U.S.A. has about 40% of the worlds IP addresses, and we as a country have plenty of IPv4 addresses for the next 50+ years.
There are many other countries, ESPECIALLY in Asia and Africa, which are now emerging internet markets that will have problems. There are quite a few ISP's already that are IPv6 ready in China, Japan, South Korea.
At some point however, we will need to convert over to IPv6. But the world isn't going to end in the U.S. if it takes us another 10 years or more.
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| said by maartena:said by vpoko:But it's got to get going, we WILL run out of IPv4 addresses real soon. Actually, the U.S.A. has about 40% of the worlds IP addresses, and we as a country have plenty of IPv4 addresses for the next 50+ years. There are many other countries, ESPECIALLY in Asia and Africa, which are now emerging internet markets that will have problems. There are quite a few ISP's already that are IPv6 ready in China, Japan, South Korea. At some point however, we will need to convert over to IPv6. But the world isn't going to end in the U.S. if it takes us another 10 years or more. 50 Years? At the rate at which everyone wants their own blog? You've gotta be kidding. | |
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said by maartena:Actually, the U.S.A. has about 40% of the worlds IP addresses, and we as a country have plenty of IPv4 addresses for the next 50+ years. ARIN has less than a year's supply of addresses. Luckily IANA has not yet run out.
If you are talking about reclaiming addresses, that's a legal minefield, not to mention a technical one. There is a finite limit to the size of the routing table the Internet's backbone routers can handle. Without significant renumbering, which would end up being just as painful as a switch to IPv6, the routers would fall over.
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