Europe is running out of free IP addresses
Talk about the fact that soon the World Wide Web will end free address space, are not the first year. According to recent studies , this will happen in 2012 or 2026. These dates, most likely not by chance, coincide with the two supposed “doomsday” closest to us: according to the Mayan calendar and according to the calculations of the mathematician Heinz von Foerster, who predicted that in 2026 the population of the Earth would reach the limit, after which to feed. But things may not be so bad at all if providers start implementing IPv6 in large numbers - a new version of IP protocol, which is devoid of many shortcomings of the IPv4 currently used everywhere. And it seems that Europe has finally begun a movement towards this, following the United States.
The American Internet registrar ARIN issued an appeal to providers about the need to transfer their services to support IPv6 as early as May, and now the European RIPE NCC registrar has followed . this decision was taken unanimously at the next meeting of the members of the working groups of the RIPE community, held last week in Amsterdam.
The need to make a difficult, in general, transfer of networks to "new rails" is justified by the fact that today this step seems to be the easiest. Alternatives that can delay the depletion of stocks of addresses: a crusade of registrars against cyber-squatters and large corporations who picked up the addresses in reserve, as well as the re-activation of the so-called address range of class E, that is, starting with numbers from 224 to 255. And if the first requires huge administrative efforts to change the rules of registration and ownership of addresses, the second output is debatable primarily in terms of technical feasibility, because it will have to rewrite huge amounts of software for all routers, and, by and large, all computers running any OS.
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If everything goes well and the providers show an understanding of the problem, all that remains is to think about how to avoid the end of the world.
The American Internet registrar ARIN issued an appeal to providers about the need to transfer their services to support IPv6 as early as May, and now the European RIPE NCC registrar has followed . this decision was taken unanimously at the next meeting of the members of the working groups of the RIPE community, held last week in Amsterdam.
The need to make a difficult, in general, transfer of networks to "new rails" is justified by the fact that today this step seems to be the easiest. Alternatives that can delay the depletion of stocks of addresses: a crusade of registrars against cyber-squatters and large corporations who picked up the addresses in reserve, as well as the re-activation of the so-called address range of class E, that is, starting with numbers from 224 to 255. And if the first requires huge administrative efforts to change the rules of registration and ownership of addresses, the second output is debatable primarily in terms of technical feasibility, because it will have to rewrite huge amounts of software for all routers, and, by and large, all computers running any OS.
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If everything goes well and the providers show an understanding of the problem, all that remains is to think about how to avoid the end of the world.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/15573/
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