April 16, 2008
11:04 pm
The sky is falling on the number of global IP addresses, and IPv6 is the solution, executives from major technology companies said Wednesday.
The exhaustion of available IP addresses using IPv4 brought out the alarmist side of many industry executives. “It’s a crisis — not a market-oriented event,” said Akinori Maemora, chairman of APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre), speaking at the Global IPv6 Summit in Beijing. “We have just three years until IPv4 addresses are depleted. These changes will come suddenly,” he said.
TCP/IP, Internet Protocol, IPv6, Networking, Ethernet, IP
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