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Dispelling the IPv4 Address Shortage Myth

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the put-on-your-debating-hat dept.

Zocalo writes "While looking up some WHOIS information at RIPE just now I noticed a couple of articles about the IPv4 address space allocation status. IPv4 Address Space: October 2003 is a short summary by RIPE themselves, and IPv4 - How long have we got? is from July 2003, but has lots more detail and pretty graphs! In short, the "Death of the Internet" due to lack of IP space is a myth, which doesn't bode well for getting IPv6 rolled out any time soon."

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  1. 4,294,249,958th post. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    The last post possible, Please upgrade to SlashV6 to post more.

  2. Grab em! by zyridium · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll take all the addresses I can :-)

    If I get enough for free, we will have to use IPV6..

    I think I want a screensaver where each pixel has an ip, and then we can replace X with a simple protocol just sending colors!!

    1. Re:Grab em! by zyridium · · Score: 4, Funny

      X sends higher order primitives, true.

      My super-leet replacement would not.

      We are talking about replacing X, remember. This is an important aspect of the grand plan.

      Should I apply for a patent?

    2. Re:Grab em! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      No you can't. That is in fact my IP address and I am still using it. I believe 192.168.1.104 is still available though.

  3. The question is wrong... by lgeezer · · Score: 2, Funny

    If ipv4 isn't broke, then there's no need to fix it with ipv6: instead, the time is used to allow ipv6 killer apps (your fridge telling your tv that you need more milk) to further mature. Like BBSes and JaNET had Internet gateways, there'll eventually be gateways between ipv4 and ipv6 Internets, and it'll suddenly be with us as if it always had been.

    About then we should be discussing whether housebricks should have IP addresses to report being dug through, or whether being able to detect movement means it could detect the movement from soundwaves, people talking. I can only hope I don't have to shout into each brick the serial number from the inevitable shrinkwrap license.

  4. imho by pizza_milkshake · · Score: 2, Funny

    it's a race between IPv6 and *NIX running out of timestamp room in an int... only 3227004721 seconds to go!

  5. 04 by Malicious · · Score: 3, Funny

    While we're at it, we should switch to a 5 digit date for the year. Because you know it's going to be Y2k all over again in the year 9999.

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    01101001001000000110000101101101001000000110001001 10000101110100011011010110000101101110