Friday, February 4, 2011

Internet running out of addresses?

The agency responsible for regulating Internet domain names, ICANN, announced Thursday, Feb. 3, he had distributed his last five batches of IP numbers (Internet Protocol), to identify the destinations of the traffic Internet via Tech News Buzz. "A pool of more than four billion Internet addresses has been emptied this morning," said Icann boss Rod Beckstrom at a news conference in Miami.

"It's completely empty, there is more." "It's like when you're running out of plates," said Olaf Kolkman for his part, president of the umbrella organization technical aspects of Internet technology, the Internet Architecture Board. News Digital Tech Buzz is not provided at the edge of the "IPocalypse," says Mr.

Beckstrom. In some parts of the world, regional registers domain names would be able to provide addresses until the switching of current standard, known as Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) standard IPv6 (version 6), virtually inexhaustible. Developed in the early 1980s, the current IPv4 standard allows for the existence of "only" 4 billion IP addresses (formed of sets of 4 numbers separated by dots) managed by Icann.

Users of the Internet, a network connecting universities initially, now has more than two billion users, according to latest figures from the International Telecommunication Union. It has been several years that ICANN requires the adoption of the new IPv6 standard, which has existed since 1999.

GRADUAL TRANSITION IPv6, allows the existence of about 340 sextillions addresses (ie 340 times 10 to the power 36): enough for a thousand billion people each have a thousand billion IP addresses, as the president Icann Rod Beckstrom. But according to professionals, network operating system with IPv6 represent only 1% of overall traffic.

For Internet users, the gradual shift to IPv6 will imperceptibly. The effort and investment required to switch on this standard are based primarily on service providers, who must ensure that their networks can handle these new addresses and routing traffic. For more information: document Icann on IPv6

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