IANA (the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) has just allocated two /8 blocks (39 and 107) to APNIC (the regional Internet registry for Asia Pacific). The remaining five blocks will now be allocated, one per regional registrar.
This allocatation means that the pool of IPv4 addresses is effectively empty. After the allocatation of the remaining five blocks the five regional registrars (AfriNIC, APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC and RIPE NCC) will no longer be able to obtain any additional IPv4 addresses. This means that once their customers (ISPs, LIRs and large enterprises) use their remaining stock of IPv4 addresses there will be no further addresses to assign to Internet users.
The solution is IPv6. The IPv6 address space in unimaginably large and is unlikely to be exhausted for generations, if ever. IPv6 not only solves the IP address problem it also brings with it many improvements and new features that have the potential to significantly change the way we use the Internet.
If you are not already using IPv6 (and you probably have IPv6 traffic on your network even if you don’t think you have) then now is the time to begin.
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