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In an article in the Hindustan Times, The American Registry is quoted as telling us that they are running out of IPV4 addresses.
On Wednesday July 1, the ARIN - in charge of North America - was forced to turn down a request for a block of IP addresses for the first time in history. The CIO Richard Jimmerson told CBS news "We are weeks away from having zero left."
On the same subject, Arstechnica details the emerging IPv4 address trading market.
We spoke to Janine Goodman, vice president of Avenue4, a broker of IPv4 addresses, about what to expect in the short term.
"IPv6 is going to happen, that's the direction it's going," she said. "But it's going to take a while. Organizations are not ready to turn to IPv6 tomorrow; this will take a few years. A transfer market allows for the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 in a responsible way, not a panicked way."
"The price for blocks of IPv4 addresses of 65,536 addresses (a /16) or smaller is about $7 to $8 per address in the ARIN region. In other regions, which have fewer addresses out there, the price tends to be a little higher," Goodman said. "We expect the IPv4 market to be around for at least three to five years. During that time, the price per address will likely go up and then finally come back down as IPv6 is being widely deployed."
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by number6 on Sunday July 05 2015, @11:56PM
I'm sure that when IPv6 judgement day comes, I will see a fully working IPv6 stack for WinXP; I have full confidence in my die-hard WinXP hacking brethren.
Security exploits and bugs may exist in any operating system at any time, past present and future; If I get p0wned then I'll pull the electrical plug out of the wall and think of a solution. Until that day comes, I'm not going to work myself into a froth over this or any other kind of scaremongering from people whose interests don't align with mine anymore. I will never ever criticize somebody over his or her choice of operating system or computing environment, no matter how abandoned or marginalized they have become. I prefer solutions at all times; solutions being hacking, cracking, piracy, copyright infingement, reverse engineering....whatever it takes; I like forward movement towards solutions and nothing else; criticism and negative comments and scaremongering can GET FUCKED.
I have given thorough details in other posts (sometimes posting as AC) why I prefer not to move on to the Windows NT6 systems. As far as I'm concerned, Microsoft are fully to blame here and not me.
Yeah, maybe one day I will move on to a non-Microsoft non-Apple computing system, but when that day comes is totally up to me.