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APNIC will be first this table is current data and a current prediction.

Note the ARIN actually has the highest stock of IPs at the moment at 6.26 /8s as compared to APNIC's 5.78 /8s. Also ARIN are only setting aside 8 million addresses for IPv6 to IPv4 connectivity whereas the other NICs (except the much smaller LANIC) are setting aside a full /8.

This may mean that America's interconnects between IPv4 and IPv6 end up going via Africa!

IANA will run out within less than a month: http://www.ipv4depletion.com/?p=557

You not informing yourself does not mean it's not happening :)

Then there's the boneheaded idea of making 127.0.0.1 the "localhost" network, instead of something otherwise unusable like 255.255.255.254, or at least the high end of the smallest class C net (223.0.0.1). Also, who needs 256 private class C subnets (192.168/16), in addition to 16 class B (172.16/12) and a class A (10/8)? That could have been pared back some. And why does AutoIP need to use 169.254/16 instead of the, say, 240.0/16 region?

While those are tehnically correct, they are irrelevant really. Watch http://www.ipv4depletion.com/?page_id=326, current rate of burning IPv4 address space is about 1.5 /8 (called "A-class" in good ol' pre-CIDR days) per month. So even if they didn't reserve even *single IP* for 127.0.0.1, nor for private class A,B,C nor /16 for AutoIP; you'd still only extend the IPv4 deadline for what, less than two months?

Even if none of the E-classes (240-255 /8) were reserved, you would get less than additional year (you can play nice what-if IPv4 endgame results with the tool at http://www.ipv4depletion.com/?page_id=77 )

And given that the industry quite cheerfully ignored IPv6 for more than a decade, I think that one can say with surety that just one threatening anonymous call to, say, cisco CEO would've helped waaaay more :-)

Then there's the boneheaded idea of making 127.0.0.1 the "localhost" network, instead of something otherwise unusable like 255.255.255.254, or at least the high end of the smallest class C net (223.0.0.1). Also, who needs 256 private class C subnets (192.168/16), in addition to 16 class B (172.16/12) and a class A (10/8)? That could have been pared back some. And why does AutoIP need to use 169.254/16 instead of the, say, 240.0/16 region?

While those are tehnically correct, they are irrelevant really. Watch http://www.ipv4depletion.com/?page_id=326, current rate of burning IPv4 address space is about 1.5 /8 (called "A-class" in good ol' pre-CIDR days) per month. So even if they didn't reserve even *single IP* for 127.0.0.1, nor for private class A,B,C nor /16 for AutoIP; you'd still only extend the IPv4 deadline for what, less than two months?

Even if none of the E-classes (240-255 /8) were reserved, you would get less than additional year (you can play nice what-if IPv4 endgame results with the tool at http://www.ipv4depletion.com/?page_id=77 )

And given that the industry quite cheerfully ignored IPv6 for more than a decade, I think that one can say with surety that just one threatening anonymous call to, say, cisco CEO would've helped waaaay more :-)

'In the next couple of years' is a pretty good prediction:

http://www.ipv4depletion.com/?page_id=147

Most companies and providers are not realising it:

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/092010-companies-starting-to-get-ipv6.html

I suggest you check these reports instead, it is a lot easier as they do all the prediction for you, and they are both updated daily:

http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html

http://www.ipv4depletion.com/?page_id=4

There's a more accurate and detailed IPv4 depletion blog: http://www.ipv4depletion.com/

It predicts that we'll run out of address space a little bit sooner. Either way, the difference between predictions is in the order of a few months.

We are going to run out of IPv4 addresses in March next year (422 days from today)
http://ipv4depletion.com/?page_id=4 /JB

Or September 2012: http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html

We are going to run out of IPv4 addresses in March next year (422 days from today)
http://ipv4depletion.com/?page_id=4 /JB

I'm ready for IPv6.

This dude claims that we will run out of IPv4 addresses in March 2011, that is about 6 months before anybody else thinks we will.
http://ipv4depletion.com/old.html