Asia out of IPv4 addresses

The article states, "Most IPv4 address space is expected to be handed out by the regional Internet registries by the end of 2011." I wonder if this has anything to do with the Mayan calendar and the end of the world in 2012? Coincidence? Hmm...

I'm just sayin'.

:) Rick

APNIC makes final IPv4 address delegations to existing network operators; holds reserve for start-ups

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World
April 14, 2011 02:02 PM ET

The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) has run out of all but a handful of IPv4 addresses that it is holding in reserve for start-up network operators.

APNIC is the first of the Internet's five regional Internet registries to deplete its free pool of IPv4 address space.

APNIC's news is another sign that CIOs and other IT executives need to begin migrating to IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol known as IPv4.

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The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) has run out of all but a handful of IPv4 addresses that it is holding in reserve for start-up network operators.

APNIC is the first of the Internet's five regional Internet registries to deplete its free pool of IPv4 address space.

APNIC's news is another sign that CIOs and other IT executives need to begin migrating to IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol known as IPv4.

"For anybody who hasn't figured out that it's time to do IPv6, this is another wake-up call for them," says Owen DeLong, an IPv6 evangelist at Hurricane Electric and a member of the advisory council of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), the North American counterpart to APNIC.

Any CIO who isn't planning for IPv6 is "driving toward a brick wall and closing your eyes and hoping that it's going to disappear before you get there," DeLong says. Ignoring IPv6 "is not the best strategy."

Most IPv4 address space is expected to be handed out by the regional Internet registries by the end of 2011.

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