Tag Archive | "APNIC"
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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 [...]
All news, Business case, IPv4 Exhaustion
If your business relies at all on the internet, then you’d better get up to speed on IPv6 – if you don’t, your customers won’t be able to reach you. What does IPv6 mean for business, how much time is left before the transition and how do businesses prepare?
Pundits have warned of the impending [...]
All news, IPv4 Exhaustion
The current supply of internet addresses is expected to last only another two years and businesses that are not prepared for it could see their websites affected, says APNIC, the internet body that is responsible for internet address registration and distribution in the Asia Pacific region.
There are about 4 billion internet protocol (IP) addresses under [...]
All news, IPv4 Exhaustion, Telco
The recession that has lead to the restructuring of the of the global economy actually proved to be a go-ahead time for the Internet users. There was a major exhaustion of the IP addresses in 2009, despite the furore of global meltdown.
In a new report by Geoff Huston, Chief Scientist at the Asia Pacific Network [...]
Equipment, IPv4 Exhaustion
Australian ISPs have been branded “a timid lot” for their tardiness in providing support for the new Internet address protocol IPv6, soon to be essential as the IPv4 address space becomes exhausted.
Writing in the latest edition of his organisation’s newsletter, ‘The Standard’, Michael Biber, professional services manager at IPv6 consultancy IPv6Now, notes that only seven [...]
All news, RIRs
2010 has been signposted as a watershed year for the migration to IPv6 by Australian ISPs, governments and enterprises.
Speaking to Computerworld after the Australian IPv6 Summit 2009 held earlier this week in Melbourne, Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) director general Paul Wilson said the conversation had moved on from mere promotion to real world [...]
All news, IPv4 Exhaustion, Telco
AARnet’s first employee and the chief scientist at the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), Geoff Huston has warned the internet industry not to be complacent when it comes to IPv6 implementation.
APNIC is the Asia Pacific regional information registry that maintains the Whois Database, manages reverse DNS zone delegations and allocates IPv4 and IPv6 address [...]
