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ARIN: We're Weeks Away From IPv4 Internet Addresses Running Out

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

"exec" writes:

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, Funny) by kaszz on Sunday July 05 2015, @05:15PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Sunday July 05 2015, @05:15PM (#205322) Journal

    Again ISP is the bottleneck. I wonder what would "make them" change?

    One idea.. A personal photo blog with Bieber only on IPv6? :P

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  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Thursday July 09 2015, @09:02AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Thursday July 09 2015, @09:02AM (#206881) Journal
    That's basically what my ISP has said. Their network and end-user routers mostly work with IPv6, but it's not a priority for them until users start complaining about being unable to access IPv6-only content. They'll roll it out when normal users start phoning their support line and having conversations a bit like this:

    Customer: I can't access this site!
    ISP: No, that's IPv6 only.
    Customer: What's IPv6?
    ISP: Internet Protocol version 6.
    Customer: What version do I have?
    ISP: We only provide IPv4 Customer: But I paid for Internet access, it didn't say I could only access Internet 4, when Internet 6 is already out!

    At that point, it stops being a thing that only geeks care about and becomes a thing that's likely to cost them business.

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