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posted by cmn32480 on Sunday July 05 2015, @03:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the ready-or-not-here-we-come-ipv6 dept.

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2015, @07:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2015, @07:59AM (#205509)

    Somebody said the same thing not that long ago. The result was called IPv4. And now we're out again.

    Your suggestion would probably last 10 years (less if the "internet of things" MBAs get what they want, rather than the "security by desgn" engineers). Then we would have the same problem for the third time.

    Instead somebody came up with the idea to make the address space large enough to last at least half a century.

    The amount of work to switch over is the same in either case, so one would have to be stupid to switch twice when we have the option of switching once.

  • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Monday July 06 2015, @11:25AM

    by isostatic (365) on Monday July 06 2015, @11:25AM (#205563) Journal

    Really. 2 billion addresses per person isn't enough?

    It's not just the stupidly long address space either, it's the things like auto-configuration. Rather than delivering "here's IPV6, it solves the address space problem", it's "here's IPv6, it solves the address space problem, and changes dhcp, and builds in ipsec (which is hated by many), and throws in multicast (which is hated by many).

    • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday July 06 2015, @07:26PM

      by tangomargarine (667) on Monday July 06 2015, @07:26PM (#205798)

      It's the same idea as computing hardware. Due to Moore's Law our PCs are exponentially more powerful than a decade or two ago, but the software expanded in complexity and resource use to fill all available hardware.

      I imagine there will be little delay in some marketing idiots figuring out a way to waste as many IPv6 addresses as possible, as quickly as possible.

      "Smart" appliances hooked up to the Internet just sounds like a terrible idea. I don't *need* to be able to access them across town, and I don't *want* other people to be able to get into them. Because you know that's what's going to happen. How would you like to get home to find out somebody hacked your refrigerator and all your food went bad? Or your air conditioner, the place is now 40 degrees Fahrenheit inside, and your electricity bill for the month quadrupled?

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