Free Internet Protocol IPv4 addresses will run out in 2020

At the ENOG 16 Conference, which was held in Tbilisi on June 3 - 4, the experts suggested switching to using the IPv6 protocol.
 
A representative of the company RIPE NCC Maxim Burtikov said that today in global terms, IPv6 traffic reached 28.59%. “In the USA and India this figure is already above 36%, in Brazil it is 27%, in Belgium - 54%.”
 
Managing Director of the company Axel Paulik drew the attention of conference participants to the fact that free IPv4 addresses will run out in 2019 or early 2020.
 
Recall that IPv4 is the fourth version of the Internet Protocol. It was first described in the RFC 791 document in 1981. IPv6 protocol, designed to solve IPv4 problems, was created in 1996, Regnum.www.regnum.ru reports.

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