Internet addresses run out in three years
Move to IPv6 now or else
MAJOR tech companies are warning that IP4 addresses are running out faster than a well-greased Cheetah on its way to a wildebeest convention.
The Global IPv6 Summit in Beijing has heard how the situation was reaching crisis point and all the IP4 addresses will be gone in three years.
This means that the move to IP6 will be sudden and not particularly well controlled. Tony Hain, IPv6 technical leader for Cisco said that the world+dog was in a state of denial about upgrading to Ipv6 and no one will ask for IPv6 until they run out of IPv4 addresses.
Sandeep Singhal, Microsoft's director of Windows networking, said that companies need to develop a phased approach to the use of native and dual stake IPV6 they cannot simply wait until it is out there. Companies were wasting time when they should be developing IPV6 software now.
They should be starting early and learning how it all works, he said. µ
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Well...
That is probably because we been around this bend roughly ten years ago.You know that whole world is coming to an end thing that was all the rage back then.
Crying wolf only gets you so far before it comes back to bite you.
3 years ??
Really ?Weren't we meant to have run on of IP v4 addresses a couple of years back ??
I have been in IT for ten years now & even back then its was "upgrade to IPv6 now, we run out in x years time..."
We're Doomed
Bugger net neutraility for a laugth, this means we are all going to be doomed. dommed i tells ya, doomed.IPv6
It is up to the network equipment manufacturers and associated infrastructure companies to manage the switch to IPv6. Not too much my end-user company can do, is there, if IPv6 based network equipment isn't out there.Then it has to be publicised, so that network users know it is there.
Then the ISPs need to support. My company and I personally use RoadRunner (only broadband option in this area), and I have absolutely NO idea if they support IPv6.
But naturally, the entities that should be handling the switch to IPv6 won't do anything (costs too much), until there IS a catastrophy.
Oh, well, what is an end-user to do?
And don't bother to tell me to whine to RoadRunner. They'll just laugh, knowing I don't have an alternative.