Friday, 4 February 2011

No IP for you!

The continual evolution of society has meant that every decade or so, what we come to accept as standard, needs to change to reflect modern day requirements.

In Australia, the 60′s saw decimal currency introduced, the 70′s was the decade that metric system was legislated, the 80′s saw us move towards enormous hair and shoulder pads, we added another digit to our phone number in the 90′s and the 00′s saw the introduction of Digital TV.

Today marks another giant leap for us, with ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) officially allocating the last of it’s 4 billion IP addresses allocated using the IPv4 format. The 2010′s is the decade we will need to restructure the internet.

This is no Y2K drama, your toaster is not going to explode, and planes won’t fall from the sky, but some changes will need to be implemented in the coming year or so. All existing websites will continue to work, and regional ISP’s (who buy IP addresses in bulk blocks) are still able to assign IP addresses that they are yet to allocate. Most home users will be blissfully unaware of the transition, as it really only impacts the internet’s engine room. Importantly, any developer worth their salt would have already been preparing for today, just like the guys at clickDM.

If you have any questions about what this means to you, Ian Ross and Craig Hockley would only be to happy to talk you through how this transition period will affect our Client sites, or anyone else’s for that matter.