in March 2011 will be almost finished. Waiting for the new IPv6 128-bit encryption, a Harvard professor offers the possibility to sell unused
ROME - The space on the Internet is about to end, not the capacity discs, which in fact is more abundant. What is getting scarce is the ability to accommodate new computer on the network, it is impossible to give everyone the necessary identification code. On the Internet, in fact, each machine is labeled with a number, that IP address. And now the IP are rapidly running out. The problem is not new. For a convention dating back to the dawn of the network, each IP is composed of 32 bits (ie a sequence of thirty-two "0" or "1"), for a total of over 4 billion possible combinations. A number that seemed almost endless in the sixties, but today, thanks to the success of the network, dramatically reveals limited. Over the years various solutions have been proposed, including the adoption of a new 128-bit encryption, called IPv6, which would suddenly explode the potential number of addresses to more than 3 billion billion billion. But the transition to IPv6, announced by year, is lagging behind. Now the prestigious Harvard Business School offers one-step solution, based on purely economic criteria. IP addresses have been distributed in large "stock" to the various regional and national authorities, who then distributed them to individual internet operators. This sorting is done largely in past decades, and then it happens that the new demands find it difficult to be fulfilled, while the old recipients have access to packages often unused addresses. The current rules that prevent stocks of IP addresses can be sold by an operator who does not use them to another who needs them. Professor Benjamin G. Edelman, Harvard University, proposes to liberalize the market for IP, arguing that free trade and increases scongiurerà clogging encoding the new IPv6.
"Nobody will give away their IP addresses for free, but if the price is set on the market, there will probably be those who want to sell them to the highest bidder," said Edelman. "In addition, give them a price that operators will understand IP addresses have a value, and there will be those who attempt to unlock a larger number, perhaps transitioning to IPv6. " This kind of trade, says Edelman, is proof of speculation, because sooner or later, with the adoption of new code, the value of the old IP will be zero. And to those who pointed out that trade Ip would inevitably place the burden on end users, Edelman says not to worry: "If the price were to increase by an IP address a hundred times, even consumer would notice."
It is estimated that the IP addresses are still available for allocation are less than 600 million. According to the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), at current rates Ip's will be exhausted by March 2011.
"Nobody will give away their IP addresses for free, but if the price is set on the market, there will probably be those who want to sell them to the highest bidder," said Edelman. "In addition, give them a price that operators will understand IP addresses have a value, and there will be those who attempt to unlock a larger number, perhaps transitioning to IPv6. " This kind of trade, says Edelman, is proof of speculation, because sooner or later, with the adoption of new code, the value of the old IP will be zero. And to those who pointed out that trade Ip would inevitably place the burden on end users, Edelman says not to worry: "If the price were to increase by an IP address a hundred times, even consumer would notice."
It is estimated that the IP addresses are still available for allocation are less than 600 million. According to the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), at current rates Ip's will be exhausted by March 2011.
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