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by Alec Muffett

BBC News – Europe hits old internet address limits # Wow, Europe has not collapsed

Not seen one of these in ages:

Europe has almost exhausted its stock of old-style internet addresses.

Strict rationing of these addresses – called IPv4 – has been started by the body that hands them out in Europe.

From now on, companies can only make one more application for IPv4 addresses and, if successful, will only get 1,024 of them.

In addition, any application for more old addresses must demonstrate how an organisation is using the new, replacement, addressing scheme.

“The day has come, finally,” said Axel Pawlik, managing director of the Ripe NCC that hands out addresses to European ISPs, firms and other organisations.

via BBC News – Europe hits old internet address limits.

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4 responses to “BBC News – Europe hits old internet address limits # Wow, Europe has not collapsed”

  1. Dave Walker

    Let’s hope this serves to cause those ISPs still not offering static IPv6, to start doing so.

    Given that East Asia’s now apparently out of new IPv4 addresses and working through IPv6 migration, it looks like ICANN’s last predictions about IPv4 exhaustion dates weren’t far out.

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  2. Dave Walker

    Also, I’d lay 50:50 odds on Europe collapsing, this decade – just for other reasons.

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  3. Dave Walker

    There’s also rumour doing the rounds that the DWP still has a /8’s worth of IPv4 addresses registered to it, and isn’t using them… if it’s true, I wonder if it would provide a sufficient bulwark for UK ISPs to catch up on IPv6 rollout?

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  4. Dave Walker

    Interesting slide stack, referenced by ISOC yesterday: http://fr.slideshare.net/ocl999/ipv6-matrix-presentation-august-2012 .

    While the measuring mechanism is admittedly broad-brush and heavily caveatted for accuracy, the numbers are surprising. In particular, the low take-up in APAC has me scratching my head; I wonder whether it’s been skewed downwards by the sheer number of systems, or whether many deployments are isolated islands. On the other hand, the US appears to be doing well – probably as a result of the US Govt’s well-publicised migration initiative.

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