IPv6 News

Broadband ISP Andrews & Arnold ( AAISP ) has decided to make IPv6 allocation an automatic feature for new customers in the UK. The ISP has been offering the service for over 8 years, yet until now IPv6 was always a (free) option that you had to ask for.
Complete info at ISPreview, IT Pro Portal and IT Pro.

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In January 2007 we highlighted that the IPv4 allocation rate had increased significantly since early 2004. By 2006 it was clear that continued growth would see IPv4 exhaustion occur sometime between 2010 and 2015.

In October 2010 we revisited the subject in the CircleID articled Graph Shows Decline of IPv4 Almost Linear. The global IPv4 depletion rate between 2004-2010 had been remarkably stable at a rate of roughly 10 /8s per year. Growth had started to pick up in the course of 2009, however, leading to faster depletion than the years before.

Now, in January 2011, we are very close to the exhaustion of the IANA pool of IPv4 address space.

So what happened? Where did the increased depletion rate come from? To answer this, we looked at the IPv4 allocation and assignment statistics that the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) publish on a daily basis. Each file lists the number resources handed out by each RIR and the date the allocation or assignment has been made. Figure 1 below shows the evolution of total IPv4 address space in all regions starting in 2004.

Next we looked at the IPv4 allocation rates per RIR. Figure 2 shows the running 6 months average allocation rate in the form of a multi colour chart, each colour representing one RIR. You can clearly see the increased demand of IPv4 addresses in the Asia Pacific region over the last few years.

For more information, please refer to the background article on RIPE Labs: Global Pattern in IPv4 Address Statistics.

Written by Mirjam Kuehne

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Experts say IPv6 is the solution.

The entire stock of IPv4 addresses is likely to be exhausted by September 2011.
Complete info at CBR, RedOrbit and TechWatch.

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I’m sure you’ve read about the upcoming collapse of the IPv4 scheme, collapse in the sense that it will run out of numbers in 2011. That means that IPv6 will be the replacement. Microsoft Windows7 has built in support for IPv6, along side of IPv4. Google and Facebook also have begun to transition to the newest version. But not everyone else is do so yet.
Complete info at ConnectedInternet.

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Carl Weinschenk spoke with John Curran, president and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers, about the last of the unassigned batches of IPv4 addresses and what’s in store for telecommunications entities that haven’t prepared for IPv6.
Complete info at IT Business Edge.

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Don’t panic! The imminent IP address shortage has been known about for years.
Complete info at PC Mag.

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Internet policymakers to announce depletion of the free pool of IPv4 addresses next week.
Complete info at NetworkWorld and ComputerWorld.

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On the heels of a prosperous year for VeriSign’s domain-name registry business, the company is bullish about the opportunities presented by the move to IPv6 and wider DNSSEC deployments in the year ahead.
Complete info at Enterprise Networking Planet and InternetNews.

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Sensinode, a pioneer in developing commercial 6LoWPAN and related IPv6 technologies envisions an “Internet of Things” that will drive IP and Web services technology to all embedded devices, enabling real-time physical sensing, smart grid, building automation and other applications.
Complete info at TMCnet.

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The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released an update to address a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability for the DHCPv6 server.
Complete info at H-Online.

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