Tag Archive | "APNIC"
All news, IPv4 Exhaustion
The importance of IPv6 could at last be getting through to ISPs and their business customers, a survey from the Number Resource Organisation (NRO) has found.
The recent snapshot by the NRO (an organisation representing Internet registries) of 1,600 ISPs and businesses across the globe underlines that IPv6 is still a small [...]
IPv4 Exhaustion
Geoff, can you tell us a bit about yourself, your history with the development of the internet in Australia, and what you’re up to now?
I stumbled across networking while working at the Australian National University in the 1980’s, and had the opportunity to construct the first national Internet in Australia in the very early 1990’s: [...]
All news
It’s January again, and being the start of another year, it’s as good a time as any to look at the last 12 months and see what the Internet was up to in 2010. This is an update to the report prepared 12 months ago when looking at 2009, so lets see what has changed [...]
All news, IPv4 Exhaustion, RIRs
APNIC, which is an administration authority of IP addresses (RIR: Regional Internet Registry) and responsible for the Asia-Pacific region, made an announcement about a rapidly decreasing stock of IPv4 addresses.
IANA, which supervises RIRs, currently has a stock of seven blocks of IPv4 addresses. A block, which is called “/8,” is equivalent to 16,777,216 addresses. In [...]
IPv4 Exhaustion, Policy, RIRs
I attended the RIPE 61 meeting this month, and, not unexpectedly for a group that has some interest in IP addresses, the topic of IPv4 address exhaustion, and the related topic of the transition of the network to IPv6 has captured a lot of attention throughout the meeting. One session I found particularly interesting was [...]
All news, Equipment, RIRs
Microsoft’s annual event for IT professionals, Tech.Ed, will this year deploy IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) for the first time in an effort to drive education and awareness about the technology.
Microsoft Australia’s Web platform evangelist, Jorke Odolphi, said whole industries were currently viewing IPv6 as “a bit too hard” and were unsure of how the [...]
All news, Equipment, RIRs
To what extent is the IPv6 Internet polluted by “background radiation”?
In earlier work we set up a number of “black hole” experiments in the Internet, where traffic can enter the experimental setup, but the setup generates no packets in response. All received packets are recorded. So far we’ve used this setup to test a number [...]
All news, IPv4 Exhaustion
Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre chief scientist Geoff Huston has sought to put in perspective reports that available IPv4 addresses could be exhausted in six months– but says that ISPs must nevertheless begin migration plans immediately.
IPv4 addresses are doled out from a rapidly dwindling pool by the Internet Assigned Number Authority to Regional Internet Registries such [...]
All news, IPv4 Exhaustion
The IETF is holding its 77th meeting this week at Anaheim, California. The last meeting saw a huge turnout and the IEFT grabbed this opportunity to promote the new IP protocol, IPv6.
Research has shown that even in small numbers, Internet users are already adapting to the 1995 technology. Geoff Huston of APNIC has recently announced [...]
All news, IPv4 Exhaustion, Telco
The Internet industry is seeing evidence that more consumers, corporations and Web sites are deploying IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol, which is known as IPv4. But IPv6 remains a fraction of Internet traffic, and it’s nowhere near where it should be given the rapid depletion of IPv4 addresses.
Comcast, Netflix and [...]
