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Source: InformationWeek
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The coming shortage of Internet Protocol addresses on Monday prompted the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) to call for a faster migration to the new Internet Protocol, IPv6.

The current version of the Internet Protocol, IPv4, allows for over 4 billion (2^32) Internet addresses. Only 19% of the IPv4 address space remains. Somewhere around 2012-2013, the last Internet address bloc will be assigned and the Internet will be full, in a manner of speaking.

"We must prepare for IPv4's depletion, and ARIN's resolution to encourage that migration to IPv6 may be the impetus for more organizations to start the planning process," said John Curran, chairman of ARIN's Board of Trustees, in a statement.

Matth

According to other reports, there will be two kinds of "full" - assignable blocks would be first to run out, then the crisis deepens as space within allocated blocks is used up.

Suggestions to prolong the availabity of IPV4 addresses include opening up ranges which are not currently available for allocation, reclaiming "dead" allocations, and the most difficult, trying to get organizions which inherited more than one major allocation in mergers etc, to consolidate their range and relinquish the surplus allocation, though releasing 1 or 2 class A lumps would not help much, unless they could be re-allocated using smaller chunks under CIDR.

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BlueMak

Well, i just bought mine, so :-p

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temeteus82

I would say that let one B class block like 192.168.0.0 to private networks

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Judas

well it doesn't appear that it would be that difficult to migrate to ipv6, considering the mac address don't change.... would appear almost like a Software update would solve it for most customers with thier routers.

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