A Black Market for IP Addresses?
Geeksaresexy.net has a very interesting article on the future of v4 space and the possibility of a black market where IPv4 could sell for rates far higher than estimated fee of $1,250 a year for 256 addresses.
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new allocations brings IPv4 x-day forward by 5 months
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has just allocated regional registries RIPE and APNIC a /8 each this month. For the uninitiated a /8 represents 2 to the power of 24 IP addresses or 167,77,216.
A /8 is the largest block allocation that can be made by IANA and these two have had the effect of bringing forward the x-date, the date for IPv4 exhaustion, by 5 months or so to April 30th 2011.
These blocks are subdivided into smaller subnets for further allocation to ISPs/organisations with smaller requirements such as BT and Timico. Timico has a variety of block allocations ranging from /16 to /20’s.
If you want to know more about IP addressing allocations check out wikipedia. The times they are a changing.
source [ trefor.net ]
IPv4 Runs Low Faster Than IPv6 Is Adopted
According to engineers at Hurricane Electric and iNetcore, by mid September, 2011, the Internet registries are expected to run out of routable IP addresses to assign.
On the Seinfeld episode, "The Dealership," Kramer takes a test drive. The salesman asks about gas and Kramer responds, "There's still some overlap between the needle and the slash below the "E"...I've been in the slash many times. This is nothing. You'll get used to it."
We'll be approaching "the slash" soon enough as addresses for users, hosts and devices will suddenly become a scarce resource. While 2012 apocalyptic visions aren't expected, the problem remains serious. Migrating to IPv6 is the leading approach, with its much larger address space of a little more than 340 trillion addresses. IPv6 could also introduce a number of engineering headaches for enterprises and consumers.
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Source [ Network Computing ]
Agencies should plan now to enable IPv6 on public-facing servers
American Registry for Internet Numbers president expects federal mandate soon for agencies to begin enabling new protocols on public-facing Web servers
The pool of available IPv4 addresses will be completely allocated in the not-too-distant future.
“It will happen 717 days from today, around 2 in the afternoon, just before tea time,†said John Curran, president of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN).
Or it might be in just 657 days; it depends on whose countdown clock you use. The point is, given the current rate of Internet growth, in about two years all new address assignments will be made with IPv6 addresses.'
Source [ GCN ]
NTT Communications selects Alcatel-Lucent to launch Japan’s first IPv6-compatible IP-VPN service based on MPLS
Paris, August 4, 2009 - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) has deployed Alcatel-Lucent’s service router solution as the base for its Internet Protocol (IP) Virtual Private Network (VPN) service, which now supports both IPv4 and next generation IPv6 protocols (*IPv4/IPv6 dual stack) for enterprise users. Offered as an option for its Arcstar™ IP-VPN service, this is the country’s first commercial IPv6 compatible IP VPN service based on Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS).
The Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router (SR) was first deployed in 2007 to support NTT Com’s IP-VPN IPv4-based service, where its reliability and flexibility were put to the test by the high demands of NTT Com’s enterprise customers. Now, with IPv4 addresses approaching exhaustion, NTT Com again chose Alcatel-Lucent to upgrade its network to allow both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic to be used on a single network, offering a smooth, relatively low-cost IPv6 migration for its enterprise customers.
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DirectAccess, IPv6 and IPv4 Networks
Tom Basham from refraction.co.uk has posted two very good write ups on Windows 7 Direct Access covering the ipv6 and ipv4 setups available.
DirectAccess, IPv6 and IPv4 Networks
So what is Windows 7 DirectAccess?
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Verizon Mandates IPv6 Support for Next-Gen Cell Phones
Cell phone carriers have seen a huge growth in wireless data usage. The iPhone is selling like hotcakes, and its users generate large amounts of traffic. Not surprisingly, as cellular providers deploy faster network technologies, users generate even more data.
The problem, of course, is that we're running out of IPv4 addresses. The IANA pool will most likely be depleted by the end of 2010. This has led many people to wonder if LTE deployments will require IPv6. Now we have an answer: Yes.
Verizon has posted specs for any LTE device that will be permitted on its LTE network. IPv6 support is mandated. IPv4 is optional. That's quite a statement, since IPv4 traffic currently dominates the Internet.
A few relevant quotes from Verizon's spec:
"The device shall support IPv6. The device may support IPv4. IPv6 and IPv4 support shall be per the 3GPP Release 8 Specifications (March 2009)". (section 3.2.4.1)
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Source [ CircleID ]
Why IPv6 Is Like Broccoli
What's wrong with IPv6, what's right, and why none of us really has a choice, according to supporters.
"After IPv4 runs out, it's not the same as running out of oil, where there would be no cars running the next morning," said Alain Durand, director of IPv6 architecture and Internet governance in Comcast's Office of the CTO. "Everything that has been deployed will still work, so don't panic."
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[ Source : internetnews.com ]
