The End Of IP As We Know It (from SANS website)

February 19, 2011 2 Comments

SANS Institute has the best article I’ve seen on the issue of IPv4 address space exhaustion. A good read, including the comments.

Today, IANA announced that it had handed out two more /8 IPv4 assignments to APNIC. As a result, IANA is down to 5 /8s, triggering its special policy to hand out one address to each regional registrar (RIR). The 5 RIRs are AFRNIC (Africa), APNIC (Asia Pacific), ARIN (North America), LACNIC (Latin

via The End Of IP As We Know It.

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2 Responses to The End Of IP As We Know It (from SANS website)

  1. andre says:
    February 19, 2011 at 6:39 am

    hope that the translation between ipv4 and ipv6 will work until everyone uses ipv6.

    Reply

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