[General] Fwd: IPv4 March 2011 depletion

[Burhan Khalid]

Good news is modern consumer desktop OSes are already IPv6 compliant out-of-the-box.

Windows since XP SP1 (with the ANP) has IPv6 support; however only from Vista onwards is it enabled by default. Windows Server 2008 has IPv6 enabled by default.

OSX has had IPv6, courtesy of KAME (www.kame.net). It also supports 6to4 tunneling and most "core" services are already IPv6 enabled (like Mail, Apache, et. al.)

No need to worry about Linux distributions.

For DNS providers, Google's Open DNS is IPv6 compliant. I believe OpenDNS is also IPv6 certified.

The only problem comes with NAT-ing hardware/software.

I guess everyone will have to "relearn" IP addressing.

Regards,
--
Burhan Khalid


On 18 Nov 2010, at 11:49, Bashar Abdullah wrote:

> I'm surprised at how cool most companies seem toward this catastrophe. 
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 18, 2010, at 6:51 AM, Bashar Al-Abdulhadi <bashar at kuwaitnet.net> wrote:
> 
>> Some nice information about IPv4 and v6 which seems a trigger to ICANN's email below it , how does our ISPs in Kuwait acting toward IPv6 ?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject:	[menog] IPv4 March 2011 depletion
>> Date:	Sun, 14 Nov 2010 09:51:30 +0200
>> From:	Ahmed Abu-Abed
>> To:	menog at menog. net
>> 
>> Hello everyone,
>>  
>> The new IPv4 depletion date, at the IANA level, is now March 2011, and only 11 blocks of /8 are left. A few months ago it was predicted as July 2011, but the exponential demand keeps bringing the date forward.
>>  
>> See counter on http://www.ipv6forum.org/
>>  
>> Practically, there are only 6 more /8s left for grabs according to RIR demand, plus 5 more /8s already earmarked as one for each RIR once the last free /8 is handed over.
>>  
>> So by Q1 next year expect a lot of PR around this news and pressure on operations to be IPv6 ready all the way to the customers getting public IPv6 addresses.
>>  
>> There is a good presentation on how to deal with IPv6 access AND IPv4 coexistence for ISPs after IPv4-depletion, and it shows that DS-Lite and NAT64 are the only practical options:
>> http://www.slideshare.net/IOSHints/nat64-and-dns64-in-30-minutes
>>  
>> DS-Lite client needs to be implemented as a protocol on the CPE. NAT64 has a big catch in that it assumes your PC (or smart mobile host for that matter) is not on dual-stack, i.e. an IPv6-only host, which is a challenge. NAT64 also needs reworking the DNS infrastructure.
>>  
>>  
>> Wishing all a happy Eid !
>> كل عام وأنتم بخير
>>  
>> Ahmed Abu-Abed
>> Amman, Jordan
>> +962 777 669 100
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject:	[menog] 105/8 allocated to AfriNIC
>> Date:	Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:01:40 -0800
>> From:	Leo Vegoda
>> To:	Leo Vegoda
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> The IANA IPv4 registry has been updated to reflect the allocation
>> of a /8 IPv4 block to AfriNIC in November 2010: 105/8. You can find 
>> the IANA IPv4 registry at:
>> 
>> http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xml
>> http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xhtml
>> http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.txt
>> 
>> The complete list of IPv4 /8s allocated so far this year is:
>> 
>> 1/8
>> 14/8
>> 27/8
>> 31/8
>> 36/8
>> 42/8
>> 49/8
>> 50/8
>> 101/8
>> 105/8
>> 107/8
>> 176/8
>> 177/8
>> 181/8
>> 223/8
>> 
>> Please update your filters as appropriate.
>> 
>> The IANA free pool contains 11 unallocated unicast IPv4 /8s.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Leo Vegoda
>> Number Resources Manager, IANA
>> ICANN
>> 
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