IPv6 Act Now

It’s been called the next Y2K, and it’s fast approaching – the end of Internet addresses under the current Internet Protocol. Australian experts warned Monday that the number of Internet addresses available under the current protocol, IPv4, will run out in about 340 days, the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reported. Under IPv4, there are only about 232 [...]

Australia could be home to one of the largest education networks to operate on the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) platform within two months. Technology pundits have called for vendors and users to migrate to IPv6 as vacant IPv4 addresses space dry up. Regional Internet Registries have warned that less than 10 per cent of [...]

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 [...]

The call for ramping up the roll out of the IPv6 standard has been renewed with a warning the world could run out of IPv4 addresses by as early as 2011. James Spenceley, CEO at IP transit provider Vocus said that with around 10 per cent of the world’s IPv4 devices remaining, the crunch will come [...]

The latest predictions on IPv4 address run-out have brought forward the estimated exhaustion date, especially in the Asia Pacific region; Internet elder statesman Vint Cerf has warned of ‘panic’ solutions resulting in poor engineering; and the Australian Government Information Management Office has accelerated its IPv6 adoption timetable by three years. Australian IPv6 consultancy and training [...]

New OECD data indicates 75 percent of New Zealand’s allocated IP addresses under the old IPv4 internet addressing scheme are already routed and in use. Globally only 13% of the remaining IPv4 addresses are available to boost those allocations, but based on current allocation trends, experts estimate that pool will run out in 2011 or 2012. More [...]

Australia is one of the countries leading the way in IPv6 adoption, according to an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report which calls for more network operators to follow its lead as IPv4 is running out. “The growth in broadband subscriptions has helped fuel the expansion of the Internet and also been one of [...]

This week marked 20 years since Robert Elz and Torben Neilsen completed the first circuit that brought the Internet to Australia. More than 12 million Australians users have been connected to the Internet since the first 56kbps satellite circuit was created, according to the International Telecommunications Union. Internet access was available in 1989 initially to universities via [...]