ARIN’s New CEO: IPv6 One of the Most Critical Internet Issues Today

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ARIN’s New CEO: IPv6 One of the Most Critical Internet Issues Today

By CircleID Reporter
July 08, 2009, 2:08 pm PDT Views: 6,430 Add Comment

The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) named John Curran as president and chief executive officer, effective July 1, 2009. Since January 1, 2009, Curran has served as acting president and CEO of ARIN. He is a founding member of the ARIN Board of Trustees and served as chairman from August 1997 to December 2008. Curran has also been a valuable participant on CircleID where he has shared his views on a number key issues such as IPv6.

In an interview by CIO, Curran said: “IPv4 address depletion is the most pressing issue facing the Internet community today and for many years to come. The fact that we’ve been ready for this for a decade doesn’t make the transition that we will be going through over the next five years all that much easier. The fact that we’ve been ready for 10 years adds to the complacency. Rather than averting a sense of crisis, it’s caused a lot of people to question: Is this going to happen? Yes, we are going to run out of free IPv4 addresses, and organizations that want to be able to make use of the Internet will need to support IPv6.”

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