gbjbaanb writes "IPv6 came a step closer yesterday as ICANN added IPv6 host records to the root DNS servers, reports the BBC
Paul Twomey, president of Icann which oversees the addressing system, told the BBC News website there was a need to start moving to IPv6.
"There's pressure for people to make the conversion to IPv6," he said. "We're pushing this as a major issue."
Whether you should bother about this depends how you read this piece from TFA: "We're down to 14% of the unallocated addresses out of the whole pool for version 4," he said.
Projections suggest that this unallocated pool will run out by 2011 at the latest.
Only 3 years to go... better ask RIPE for another couple of IPs for my server." Link to Original Source
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