Internet approaches addressing limit
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10105978.stm

:shocked:

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migration to ipv6 should help

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it would only affect NEW service providers/providers expanding their address ranges anyway.

IPv6 needs implementing, however I don't know many people that use it yet...

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Why are you worried?

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Perhaps it will mean the end of some companies who can't get IP addresses, I mean I for one would really Miss NTL if they went bust - oh, sorry, they're called Virgin Media now aren't they? Still, would be a shame if we never saw them again.

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They've said this for the last 5 years. If they were seriously panicking, they'd have rammed through changes by "law".

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There are ways to work around the IP addressing limit if you consider them

1) IPV6
2) Split the net into 2. amend webpages with net1.www.website.tld and net2.www.website.tld etc, set the domain name servers to route according to the prefix.
etc etc

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DNS servers don't do routing?

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Oh, as supported by ICANN, the IETF, the RIRs and their members... etc? ;)
Huh? Why would you do that? Are you suggesting that net1 prefixed domains would be IPv4 and net2 prefixes IPv6? IPv6 is already supported in DNS by the use of quad A records and so a website is either accessible via IPv4, IPv6 or both and so which version you use to connect to them is determined by your browser, OS and network connectivity. We're likely to see many years of IPv4 working in conjunction with IPv6 (dual stacked) but without the adoption of IPv6, the Internet as a whole cannot grow at the rates which we've so benefitted from in the past.

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As we all know that there is no "Internet Police", which global cyber law enforcing agency would implement this?

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I heard that foreign language web addresses are now allowed. Was it Egypt the first one?

Many apologies, I meant non-latin web addresses.

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Correct, but we're not talking about web addresses (URLs) we're talking about IP addresses

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Indeed:)

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The first IDNs were issued on 5th May for:

Egypt: مصر (Egypt)
Saudi Arabia: السعودية (AlSaudiah)
United Arab Emirates: امارات (Emarat)

Russia now has its own too: рф

e.g:
http://президент.рф

... but this is all off topic!

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It is? I wouldn't know..:erm:

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Sorry off topic but related... What are the 11 languages? I could not find the complete listing....

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Arabic
Chinese (simplified)
Chinese (traditional)
Greek
Hindi
Japanese
Korean
Persian
Russian
Tamil
Yiddish

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Back to the original subject, does anyone know when VM plan to start implementing IPv6 allocations to end-users? Is it being used in their core or for STBs yet?

Cheers.

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the sad thng is there is still big swaths of ip's unused.

it is true the amount of 'allocated' ip's is high but some big organisations have a low 'utilisation' of these ip's such as the US government and some big companies. When we reach the tipping point I suspect some of these ip's will be unallocated.