APNIC president says IPV4 address will be depleted within 3 years

"NetEase technology News" August 26, "according to the current pace of development, IPV4 address will be depleted in the next 3 years." "Paul Wilson, chairman of Apnic, made the remarks earlier this morning in an exclusive interview with NetEase Technology.

Paul Wilson made the above remarks to NetEase technology after the meeting of the 28th session of the Asia-Pacific Network Information Center open Policy Conference. He believes that IP address, domain name is the logical infrastructure of the Internet, the future development of the Internet has a decisive impact. Facing the increasingly exhaustion of IPv4 address, and more and more network attacks against the domain Name System, the management and operation of Internet basic resources has gradually moved from the backstage technical problems to the foreground, so he appealed to the domestic to promote the deployment of IPV6 address as soon as possible.

Paul Wilson said one of the main objectives of APNIC's meeting was to focus on the question of whether to allow IP address resources to be transferred to the market in the face of IPv4 's imminent challenge, in order to push some of the idle IPV4 resources to full use.

In addition, how the Internet community completes the smooth transition of IPv4 to IPv6, and how to automatically allocate IPv6 space to IPV4 address owner, etc., is the subject of his discussions with domestic Internet practitioners during this meeting.

APNIC, one of the world's five regional Internet registries, is responsible for fair distribution and responsibility management of IP addresses and related digital resources in the Asia-Pacific region, which convenes two annual open policy meetings to discuss technology and policy issues affecting the Internet community in Asia and the Pacific.