”The global supply of IPv4 addresses is reaching...
"The global supply of IPv4 addresses is reaching a critical level,” and has prompted ICANN to start “allocating the remaining blocks” of IPv4 addresses to the “five Regional Internet Registries,” said an ICANN news release (http://bit.ly/1jV7Y3F) Tuesday. The allocation was…
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“triggered” when the Latin American and Caribbean Network Information Centre’s supply of IPv4 addresses “dropped to below 8 million,” it said. “As more and more devices come online, the demand for IP addresses rises, and IPv4 is incapable of supplying enough addresses to facilitate this expansion,” it said. “This redistribution of the small pool of IPv4 addresses held by us ensures that every region receives an equal number of addresses while we continue to work with the community to raise support for IPv6,” said ICANN’s Elise Gerich, vice president-technical operations and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. “IPv6 deployment is a requirement for any network that needs to survive,” said Leo Vegoda, ICANN operational excellence manager. The policies guiding IPv4 allocation are on ICANN’s website (http://bit.ly/1tkCuvj).