ICANN To Internet Community - Adoption of IPV6 Is Essential
Posted February 2nd, 2010
As reported on ICANN’s website “ It has long been anticipated, but the available pool of unallocated Internet addresses using the older IPv4 protocol – which holds a total of slightly more than four billion IP addresses - has now dipped to below the 10 percent mark, meaning that there are only a bit over 400 million IP addresses left in the global pool of unallocated addresses.
The IPv4 protocol defines the unique numeric address number assigned to each computer that is connected to the Internet. The Internet was developed in the early 1980s and has served us well for about three decades. With a bit over 400 million addresses remaining, the IPv4 address space is expected to be fully allocated in about two years’ time, although predicting an exact date is not practical as this will depend upon human behaviour.
“It is important that the public understand that many of the IPv4 addresses that have been allocated have not yet been distributed to the public, so there will be no immediate global shortage of IPv4 addresses at the consumer level,” said Rod Beckstrom, ICANN’s CEO and President.”
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Tags: ICANN, IPV4, IPv6, Rod Beckstrom
Posted in ICANN, IPv6 by Kelly Hardy
