{"id":1371,"date":"2009-11-07T18:25:23","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T22:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2022-08-23T14:36:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T18:36:46","slug":"ipv6-growing-despite-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/ipv6-growing-despite-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"IPv6 Growing Despite Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IPv6<\/a>The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN<\/a>) reports that demands for IPv6 address space is growing. According to the 10\/19\/2009 article, Next-generation Internet defies recession<\/em><\/a> on NetworkWorld<\/a>, during the first nine months of 2009, ARIN\u00a0 received 300 requests from carriers for blocks of IPv6 address space. This compares to 250 requests received in all of 2008 and 2007.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>“We’re seeing an uptick in IPv6 address space requests; it’s a very significant growth rate,” says John Curran, president, and CEO of ARIN. “We’ve seen a slight slowdown in IPv4 address space requests\u2026It’s probably dropped off 10% or 20% year over year.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Curran says ARIN is beginning to see ISPs such as Comcast<\/a> and Verizon Wireless<\/a> put a great deal of effort into migrating from IPv4-based networks to those built using IPv6.\u00a0“ISPs are asking for IPv6 addresses so they can make their networks IPv6-enabled so they are ready [for the future],<\/em>” Curran says. “We give each ISP enough IPv6 addresses to support 4 billion networks, and each network can contain trillions and trillions of hosts.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

ARIN’s Curran says the recession is not hampering carriers’ interest in IPv6. “IPv6 solves a problem that hasn’t happened yet. So seeing any demand is surprising, and it means that organizations are planning ahead,<\/em>” he says. “The current weakness in the economy\u2026is not dampening down IPv6 demand significantly because IPv6 is right around the corner for ISPs. We may be two years away from the IPv4 free pool of addresses running out, but two years, if you’re an ISP, is enough time to get one network deployed. Two years is within everyone’s planning horizon.”<\/em><\/p>\n

ARIN plans several policy changes to push carriers towards IPv6 adoption. These include:<\/p>\n