Timeline of the Internet Infographic showing IPv4 depletion and need to adopt IPv6. http://teamarin.net/education/ipv4-depletion/

1. As more and more companies are faced with either having to wait for IPv4 address space or
makeuseofthetransfermarket,forward-thinkerswillacceleratetheirIPv6transitionplans.
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last of IPv4
address free pool
previo
usly-unassigned
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ounced
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201
1 • Phase one c
ountdownbegi
ns
ARIN receives
its last block of
16 M addresses
(“/8”) from IANA
IPv4a
ddress space de
pleted
2011•
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global
IANA
D E P L E T I O N Z O N E
2
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ddedtodictionary
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6•Twitter®la
unches
2005•AFRINIC
formally recognized
AFRINIC
African Network
Information Center
2005•You
Tube® launch
es
2004•Faceb
ook®launches
2002
• LACNIC formally rec
ognized
LACNIC
Latin American and
Caribbean Network
Information Centre
2001•A
pple®releasesfirst
iPod®
1999 • Napst
er®invented
conne
cted to the In
ternet
1999
•70Mcomp
uters
1998•Google®
OpensinGarage
19
97•ARINfounded
ARIN
The American Registry
for Internet Numbers
1995•
IPv6 standard acc
epted
128-bit
1994•A
PNIC established
APNIC
Asia Pacific Network
Information Center
transaction
over Internet
1994•Firste
-commerce
1992•First
RIRformed
RIPE
Network Coordination Centre
The first
Regional Internet
Registry (RIR) was
formed to administer
Internet number resources
(IPv4, IPv6, and Autonomous System numbers)
19
90 • HTML introd
uced
Tim Berners-Lee develops
HTML (HyperText Markup Language),
the standard was
accepted in
1994
1984•.co
mdomainaccept
ed
General Purpose
Domains (.com,
.edu, .mil, .gov,
.org) accepted as
standard
19
81•IPv4stand
ardaccepted
32-bit
197
4 • TCP/IP introduced
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, the
“Fathers of the Internet,”
publish“A protocol for
Packet Network
Interconnection”
1971•
Firstemailsent
No one could have predicted the success and universal adoption of the Internet when IPv4
was introduced more than three decades ago. Now with the depletion of the IPv4
address space that has served as a foundation for the global Internet for many
years, it is time to promptly deploy IPv6 to enable the Internet’s continued growth.