No more IPv4 addresses in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Re: No more IPv4 addresses in Latin America and the Caribbean
#2Re: No more IPv4 addresses in Latin America and the Caribbean
#3well, this is bad news
Re: No more IPv4 addresses in Latin America and the Caribbean
#4well, this is bad news
This is great news. This means IPv6 there is that much closer to being a reality.
Re: No more IPv4 addresses in Latin America and the Caribbean
#5well, this is bad news
This is great news. This means IPv6 there is that much closer to being a reality.
"the worse the better"
Re: No more IPv4 addresses in Latin America and the Caribbean
#6Time for IPv6 baby.
Re: No more IPv4 addresses in Latin America and the Caribbean
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is great news. This means IPv6 there is that much closer to being a reality.
"the worse the better" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Chernyshevsky
Sort of. IPv6 adoption is a matter of supply/demand economics. The supply of IPv4 is quickly approaching zero, while the demand is rising fast. At the same time the supply if IPv6 is effectively unlimited, but the demand is not there. At some point, the supply of IPv4 will go so low that its cost will suddenly jump. The cost of IPv6 deployment is still too high (mostly in human labor to set it up, and somewhat in equipment costs since some large legacy networks are not IPv6-ready). However, that jump in the IPv4 cost will price IPv6 deployment at a point much cheaper than alternatives (IPv4 large scale NAT or other workarounds). That's when we'll see a huge jump in IPv6 deployment.
I think the next big step for ISP's is to provide IPv6-only native service to their clients, and add IPv6-to-IPv4 gateways to allow access to IPv4-only internet.
Re: No more IPv4 addresses in Latin America and the Caribbean
#8well, this is bad news
This is great news. This means IPv6 there is that much closer to being a reality.
Carrier-Grade NAT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT
As in what is (unfortunately) actually being used. ISP's have taken so long to even begin to look at moving to IPv6 that stopgaps like CGN have to be put in place. Then, of course, why break what is working so IPv6 is put off even further.
Re: No more IPv4 addresses in Latin America and the Caribbean
#9What are the practical consumer-level implications of this? My understanding is that every internet-enabled device needs a unique IP address. If there are no more unique addresses, can no more devices connect to the internet in this region?
Re: No more IPv4 addresses in Latin America and the Caribbean
#10What are the practical consumer-level implications of this? My understanding is that every internet-enabled device needs a unique IP address. If there are no more unique addresses, can no more devices connect to the internet in this region?
ISPs could start putting users behind a giant NAT.
One cable company used to do it in Brazil back in the 2000's