IPv6 reality starts dawning on ISPs
 

The difficulties of adopting the next-generation Internet standard so far have outweighed

its advantages,FFXIV Gold but one

key part of the computing industry is showing signs of beginning the IPv6 transition in

earnest: Internet service providers.

A total of 32 percent of ISPs offer IPv6 services to business customers today, according to

a new European Commission-funded survey, said John Curran, chief executive of American

Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), one of the world's five nonprofit Internet registry

organizations that collectively hand out Internet addresses and keep track of which numeric

addresses are connected to which servers on the Internet.

That percentage, though, is increasing.

"Sixty buy ffxiv gilpercent intend

to have services within a year. That's a huge step up," Curran said. "Within two years, it

is 80 percent."

ARIN, which allocates Internet addresses, shows the steadily diminishing number of

available blocks of 16.7 million IP addresses. Today, 14 remain.
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(Credit: ARIN) He's baffled what the remaining 20 percent of ISPs will do, given that the

Internet is expected to run out of the current limited stock of IPv4 addresses in about

that same time frame, making ISPs left behind the virtual equivalent of a home-building

contractor with no empty lots left on the street. According to Internet service company

Hurricane Electric, which monitors the IPv6 transition, there are about 203 million IPv4

addresses left, enough to last less than nine months.

Hurricane Electric's estimate is reasonable, Curran said, though it's hard to predict

exactly given the inconstant decline. The five Internet registry organizations pull unused

IP addresses out of the pool as needed in so-called "/8" blocks of 16.7 million addresses

at a time, then it takes some time for them to allocate them to ISPs and others. Fourteen

of the original 256 /8 blocks are unused.

Even afterFFXIV Gil the registry

organizations have handed out their last IPv4 addresses, it'll probably be another six

months before the ISPs exhaust their supply, Curran said.