Hi, I'm Iljitsch van Beijnum. These are all posts about IPv6.
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APNIC is down to its last 17 million IPv4 addresses, so from now on ISPs in Asia, Australia, and the Pacific will only qualify for one final block of 1,024 addresses each.
Permalink - posted 2011-04-15
It's official: the IPv4 well has run dry. The final five /8 blocks of IPv4 were handed with much pomp and circumstance at an event this morning, which means it's time to get serious about moving everyone to IPv6.
Permalink - posted 2011-02-03
As of January 1, 2011, the number of unused IPv4 addresses is 495.66 million. Exactly a year earlier, the number of available addresses was 721.06 million. So we collectively used up 225.4 million addresses in 2010.
Permalink - posted 2011-01-01
In 2010, twice as many IPv6 address blocks were given out as in 2009, adding up to 5.5 times as much address space.
Permalink - posted 2011-01-01
Probably my biggest IPv6 story on Ars Technica: "The Internet is running out of IPv4 addresses—not at some point in the future, but right now. But the only solution to the problem, IPv6, is just now really starting to be deployed. That's why we're all in for some tough times ahead."
Permalink - posted 2010-09-30
For the fifth time now, I wrote an IPv4 address use report over the previous year for this site. And, for the first time, an IPv6 address use report. In addition, I wrote an article for Ars Technica about the IPv4 address use the past year and the past decade. From the Ars article:
Today, ten years later, 2,985 million addresses (81 percent) are in use, and 722 million are still free. In that time, the number of addresses used per year increased from 79 million in 2000 to 203 million in 2009. So it's a near certainty that before Barack Obama vacates the White House, we'll be out of IPv4 address. (Even if he doesn't get re-elected.)
Permalink - posted 2010-01-04