[LINK] IANA address space running on empty

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

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For the younger folk on the list, Geoff Houston used to be a regular 
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Richard, is a current participant.

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IANA address space running on empty
By Richard Chirgwin
25th January 2011 23:51 GMT
The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/25/ipv4_last_200_days/

“I’m not an optimist” – APNIC's Geoff Houston

APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Houston – long known as an address space 
tracker and one of the founders of Australia’s Internet connectivity – 
has warned Linux Conference Australia 2011 delegates that new address 
allocations are about to cease.

He has told the conference that IANA [the Internet Assigned Numbers 
Authority] will stop issuing new addresses in February.
Click here to find out more!

After that point, Houston told the conference, those needing new 
addresses would either have to start a rapid conversion to IPv6, or 
would have to rely on increasing their reliance on NAT (network address 
translation). Multi-level NAT, he believes, will cause “major pain” to 
users.

While Vint Cerf has somewhat played down talk of an “IP apocalpyse”, 
Houston reportedly told the conference that “Vint Cerf is a professional 
optimist. I am not.”

Houston has long warned the Internet community that a time would come 
when IPv6 implementation became an inevitability rather than an option, 
and has produced regular projections on IPv4 address exhaustion at his 
Potaroo.net Website.

Houston is also skeptical that “dual stack” implementations will help 
much, telling the conference that such transition strategies have a high 
failure rate. His conclusion? That the world needs to undertake the IPv6 
transition in the next 200 days.

And if he succeeds in that argument, The Register would suggest an 
appointment to the IPCC as a climate change evangelist is probably in order.

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