Predict black market for IP addresses

"Internet's father fears untenable conditions in 2011.

Already in January this year notified Number Resource Organization (NRO), the number of available IPv4 addresses is about to reach a critical point.

Now many predict that the reservoir will end as early as next year. The entire 94 percent of the addresses are already occupied. Thus, an urgent need to get IPv6 standards in place.

IPv4 is a 32 bit addressing system, and consequently offers more than four billion addresses. IPv6, which has been clear for over ten years, using 128 bits of each address, and thus offers over 3.4 e 38 addresses.

Meanwhile, experts predict acute IP deficiency. This is probably someone who will come out ahead on, said the Google-profile web evangelist Vint Cerf - one of the creators of TCP / IP protollen and thereby many be called the Internet's father.

Cerf said that it will develop a black market for IP addresses. This will mean increased costs for web developers. At the same time fear Cerf that those who sit on available addresses will receive unwanted power. So much power that the Internet's decentralized nature will be threatened.

CEO John Curran of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (Arin) says that the delay to BetaNews.com of IPv6 will mean trouble for both Internet service providers, developers and end users all over the world.

Criticism is directed now mainly against the major network operators and telecommunications authorities in each country and global and regional organizations.

For large network providers such as Google and Facebook have undoubtedly been involved strongly in favor of IPv6.