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IPv4 addresses run out in 2010

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Fri May 25 2007, 10:09
THE AMERICAN Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) has confirmed that Ipv4 numbers will have been exhausted by 2010 and the world urgently needs to move to Ipv6.

According to ArsTechnica, people occasionally provide fraudulent information to ARIN to obtain address space, and as the amount of IPv4 space remaining decreases, this could happen more often.

ARIN gives out IP addresses in North America and there are four similar organisations in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and the Rest of the World.

The biggest problem for ARIN is that Ipv6 gives you very little advantage and too few users. According to ARIN's statistics, 19 percent of the IPv4 address space is still available, with 13 percent unavailable and 68 percent "allocated." µ

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