IPv4 Exhaustion Day - February 1, 2011

[James Bond]

http://www.nro.net/news/icann-nro-live-stream

On Thursday, 3 February 2011, at 9:30 AM Eastern Standard Time (EST) [14:30 UTC /GMT], the Number Resource Organization (NRO), along with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the Internet Society (ISOC) and the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) will be holding a ceremony and press conference to make a significant announcement and to discuss the global transition to the next generation of Internet addresses.

Much has been written in the international media over the last few weeks about the dwindling pool of Internet addresses using the original Internet protocol, called IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4), and this topic will be addressed at the event.

We invite all interested community members to view the webcast of this event at: http://www.nro.net/news/icann-nro-live-stream

In the event you happen to be at the Intercontinental Hotel in Miami on Thursday, there will be limited public seating available to attend (with press receiving seating priority) in Room “Concourse II” at 9:30 AM EST for the ceremony and 10:00 AM for press conference which follows.

History in the making! I want to watch the announcement but its at 6:30AM PST 🙁

 

[ViviTheMage]

Surprised there are no more comments?

 

[spidey07]

Surprised there are no more comments?

Because it's a non-issue.

 

[ViviTheMage]

Because it's a non-issue.

I know, but kind of cool event. Granted, it's been talked to death around the web already.

 

[airdata]

Any idea why they haven't attempted to audit the IP addresses that are out there?

I'd be interested in seeing what percentage of IP's area actually being used. 127.0.0.0 is totally wasted and represents 16,777,214 ip addresses.

There are countless ip blocks that are poorly used. The college I attended had an entire class B for 5-6 total locations and didn't even use NAT. Every computer in the building had it's own unique IP. I'd have to assume there are tons of other ip blocks like this where there's 65000 ip addresses and less than 10,000 are even being used.

 

[ViviTheMage]

Companies hoarded them .. I know a few company have entire Class A's ... IBM, Apple, Locking, etc.

I am about to grab a few more Class C's from Arin today :thumbsup: So I know they're still "available"

 

[James Bond]

I know, but kind of cool event. Granted, it's been talked to death around the web already.

Exactly. I didn't create the thread for people to freak out, I created it because its a historic event.

 

[Pheran]

Spidey's right about the non-event, but it is creating enough publicity to finally get the upper management at some places to kick IPv6 projects into gear.