Tuesday, 28 September 2010 09:15 David Goldstein
With IPv4 addresses nearing exhaustion, internet and IPv4/6 expert Geoff Huston has posted an article on his blog looking at a set of answers to the most common questions he has been asked on this topic in recent times. Issues looked at are:
What’s the most significant challenge to the Internet today?
What is an "IP Address" and why is it so important?
Why are we running out of addresses?
When will we run out?
What’s the plan?
How many addresses are in IPv6?
How do we transition to IPv6?
When my computer supports IPv6 can I return my IPv4 address?
What needs to be done to transition the network to IPv6?
How long do we expect this dual stack transition to take?
What about "address sharing" in IPv4? Why do we need IPv6 anyway, given that we could simple share addresses in IPv4?
This all sounds like a terrible problem. Was this whole global "experiment" with the Internet all one big mistake? Should we have looked elsewhere for a networking technology for computers back in the 1990’s?
To read this posting by Geoff Huston in full, see:
www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2010-09/exhaustguide.html
