IPV4 address will be exhausted next year

August 17th, at the just-conducted 2010 China Internet Conference International Summit, Li Xing, deputy director of the Information Network Engineering Research Center of Tsinghua University and a doctoral tutor, expounded his views on the future trend of Internet development. It is expected that the distribution of IPV4 addresses will be gone in February and March of next year.

In the speech, Prof. Xing Li proposed four major challenges in the current Internet. One of them is that the IPV4 address is not enough. He said, “About 5% of IPV4 addresses that have not yet been allocated in the world are still coming from the Asia-Pacific region. Talk about 50 days using an address. This matter will make the entire world of IPV4 in February and March of next year will be gone. This matter is very serious." Of course, when discussing how to solve the problem, Professor Li Xing also gave a The conclusion is that IPV6.

In addition, he also proposed that in the future, the Internet will also face challenges such as the explosion of routing tables, traffic explosions and economic models. How should we deal with them? Professor Li Xing believes that the Internet has two most important ones. One is to include all communication technologies. The second is to develop a platform for innovative applications.

In the end, he put forward a small prediction: “The next innovation company that the Internet industry can create is really big. It may be a company that has 128-bit IPV6 addresses and has more applications.”