{"id":111654,"date":"2019-12-04T17:18:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/?p=111654"},"modified":"2021-08-09T13:55:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T17:55:14","slug":"time-is-running-out-on-ipv4-are-you-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/time-is-running-out-on-ipv4-are-you-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Is Running Out on IPv4 Are You Ready ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

E\"Time<\/a>very device that connects to the Internet needs an address to get bits delivered to it, just like your home has a street address so that FedEx, UPS or the post office can leave you packages. On the Internet, they are called IP addresses<\/strong>. Currently, there are 2 types of addresses on the internet – IPv4, and IPv6<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>IPv4 is still used every day and has over 4.3 billion IP addresses – but that is not enough. Followers of the Bach Seat<\/a> know most of the original<\/a> IPv4 addresses are no longer available<\/strong>. In 2011 <\/strong>Asia<\/strong> ran out of IPV4<\/a> addresses, and in 2015 the <\/strong>U.S.<\/strong> ran out<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Just last week (11\/25\/2019) RIPE<\/a>, the organization that handles IPv4 addresses for<\/strong> 76 countries in Europe<\/strong>, the Middle East, and parts of Central Asia announced<\/a> that it ran out of IPv4 addresses<\/strong>. “We made our final \/22 (1,022 address netblock) IPv4 allocation from the last remaining addresses in our available pool.”<\/em><\/p>\n

IPv6 is a not-so-new specification<\/a>, created in 1995<\/a> to replace IPv4. IPv6 has over 340 undecillion IPv6 addresses.<\/p>\n

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\"Follow<\/a>A tell-tale sign of a dysfunctional market<\/strong> is the evolution of a grey market<\/strong><\/a>. Followers of Bach Seat know that a grey market in IPv4 addresses<\/strong> has existed since 2011<\/strong><\/a>. IPv4 prices on the grey market can range from $11 – $33 per address, meaning the IPv4 transfer market is now worth hundreds of millions of dollars<\/strong> globally.<\/em><\/p>\n

ars points out<\/a> that end-users and the SMB market are largely unaffected by IPv4-address exhaustion<\/strong>. They can still connect to the web and do what they need to do.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"barrier<\/a>They predict that new Internet service providers<\/strong> will be the first to really feel the IPv4 exhaustion pinch<\/strong>. They will need IP addresses firms know-how to deal with (hint- it’s not IPv6) to hand out. According to ars this could include cloud providers<\/strong> such as Conga<\/a>, Digital Ocean<\/a>, Huddle<\/a>, and Optiv<\/a> who also act as Internet Service Providers.<\/em><\/p>\n

If you are an incumbent ISP this is a good thing, for everybody else it is a significant barrier to entry<\/strong> for new players in either local or cloud ISP markets.<\/em><\/p>\n

They conclude that full adoption of IPv6 and its 340 undecillion<\/a> individual addresses is the way around the incumbent oligarchy.<\/em><\/p>\n

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