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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: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2015, @05:33PM
When Does Soylent Go IPv6?
(Score: 3, Informative) by fritsd on Sunday July 05 2015, @08:15PM
dig -t AAAA soylentnews.org
soylentnews.org. 300 IN AAAA 2600:3c00::f03c:91ff:fe98:b8fe
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Monday July 06 2015, @11:12AM
The rehash upgrade heralded the introduction of IPv6 support for the site. Dev has been IPv6 since it was initialized, but longstanding bugs prevented us from enabling it on production. It took a surprising amount of effort to make the site not croak. If slashdot ever rolls out IPv6, I'll be very curious if they pick it out of our branch.
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