The internet run out of addresses within a year

The internet run out of addresses within a year

The current protocol, IPv4 allows for a maximum of 4 billion addresses. It was designed before personal computers and mobile phones became the norm and certainly before anyone anticipated that appliances such as fridges would one day be connected.

A replacement protocol, IPv6, is available but will be expensive to implement. ISPs and consumers will have to do significant software upgrades and in many cases replace hardware. Stop-gap solutions are likely to break many net applications.

It's official: the IPv4-based internet is full, or at least it will be within a few weeks.

There are no more IPv4 addresses left to allocate, after APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the Asia-Pacific region grabbed two blocks and the remainder were allocated equally between the five RIRs. ISPs will still be able to request IPv4 addresses from their RIR until the pool has been depleted, which could be a matter of weeks. A campaign is underway to persuade website owners to switch to the new addressing system, IPv6.

Raul Echeberria, chairman of the Number Resource Organisation (NRO), the official representative of the five RIRs. said: "Depending on address space requests received, this could last each RIR anywhere from a few weeks to many months. It's only a matter of time before the RIRs and ISPs must start denying requests for IPv4 address space. Deploying IPv6 is now a requirement, not an option. All internet stakeholders must now take definitive action to deploy IPv6."

ICANN's chief executive Rod Beckstrom said, "The adoption of IPv6 is now of paramount importance, since it will allow the internet to continue its amazing growth and foster the global innovation we've all come to expect.

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