With 94.5% of IPv4 addresses already allocated and the remaining 5.5% expected to be allocated by mid-2011, a panel of industry experts, including John Curran, president and CEO of ARIN, explained that IPv6 is the only path to continued Internet growth at a recent NTIA IPv6 workshop. The panellists also agreed that IPv6 is necessary for all future efforts around cloud computing, smart grid, mobility, and the Internet of Things. To read the full news release from ARIN, with all findings and deliverables, see below.






