Internet addresses depletion

[frebo]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...54646720110203

[SuperSparks]

And here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12367484

I don't know about on your side of the pond, but over here all the ISPs are burying their heads in the sand over it

[fink]

My ISP has been beta testing ipv6 on their network for a year now. They're the only ones I've seen in Canada doing this.

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r23849317-IPv6-beta

My PC and OS are ipv6 capable, can't say the same about my 4-5 yr's old router and modem though

Too old for anyone to write appropriate firmware as well.

[A31Chris]

I thought ISPs got around this by making their network a sort of 'local' network.

[foxy]

Please explain in terms we can understand. An IP address now consists of 4 numbers separated by periods. Are they just going to have more than 4 numbers or is it something more cryptic?

[fink]

An example.. 3ffe:1900:4545:3:200:f8ff:fe21:67cf

Note that the :3: is actually 0003 but you will be able to omit leading 0's in any section/field.

http://www.opus1.com/ipv6/whatdoesan...slooklike.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#Address_Format

[Dude111]

I thought ISPs got around this by making their network a sort of 'local' network.

Yes i hope they do!!

The ISP i am on right now IS NOT IPv6 READY!! (This whole thing is a big mess!!)

[marty-boy]

Please explain in terms we can understand. An IP address now consists of 4 numbers separated by periods. Are they just going to have more than 4 numbers or is it something more cryptic?

That's how it is displayed, and it is called a dotted decimal IP number, but it actually a 32 bit number for the current system which is IPv4

the 32 bit number is grouped into four blocks of 8 bits and these are in turn converted from Binary into decimal.

EXAMPLE:
11010011110010001001101000101001
becomes
11010011.11001000.10011010.00101001 by dividing into 8 bit blocks
this then becomes
211.200.154.41 by converting each block to decimal

This is purely an imaginary IP address used for this example only.

Hope that helped.

[marty-boy]

Vince Cert, the father of the Internet and now the Chief Google evangelist talks about this at a recent Linux Convergence, LCA2011 held in Brisbane, Australia in January this year.

see http://linuxconfau.blip.tv/file/4683393/