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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."

2 of 505 comments (clear)

  1. Re:4,294,249,958th post. by rmdyer · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ummm, what exactly is this number you've presented here? Is it supposed to be 2^32-1, or 4294967295?

    Even so, given that most C Lib functions are in signed format then the highest post possible would be 2^31-1, or 2147483647.

    +1

  2. MOD PARENT UP by aminorex · · Score: 0, Troll

    End-to-end connectivity is all that matters.
    IPv6 partisans miss this point, so it's
    important to drive it home.

    --
    -I like my women like I like my tea: green-