With IPv4 addresses nearing exhaustion, internet and IPv4/6 expert Geoff Huston has posted an new article on his blog looking at a series of answers to the most common questions he has been asked on this topic in recent times.

Issues looked at are:

• What's the most significant challenge to the Internet today?
• What is an "IP Address" and why is it so important?
• Why are we running out of addresses?
• When will we run out?
• What's the plan?
• How many addresses are in IPv6?
• How do we transition to IPv6?
• When my computer supports IPv6 can I return my IPv4 address?
• What needs to be done to transition the network to IPv6?
• How long do we expect this dual stack transition to take?
• What about "address sharing" in IPv4? Why do we need IPv6 anyway, given that we could simple share addresses in IPv4?
• This all sounds like a terrible problem. Was this whole global "experiment" with the Internet all one big mistake? Should we have looked elsewhere for a networking technology for computers back in the 1990's?

To read this posting by Geoff Huston in full, see:

http://www.todayisp.com/news/MessView.net?IDMessage=8288

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