Over at ChinaTechNews, they are reporting that China may soon run out of IP addresses. According to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNIC), under the current allocation speed, China’s IPv4 address resources can only meet the demand of 830 more days, which means about January 01, 2011. Li Kai, director in charge of the IP business for CNNIC’s international department, says that new IPv6 network addresses are only used among educational networks in China.
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So apparently, China isn’t much further along with IPv6 deployment than Europe (GEANT) and North America (Internet2), where the research/educational community primarily has large IPv6 networks
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