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IPv4 Unallocated Addresses Exhausted by 2010
An anonymous reader writes "Ars Technica is reporting on how the unallocated IPv4 address pool could run out as soon as 2010. The IPv4 Address Report gives details on just how fast the available pool of IPv4 addresses is diminishing. Will ISPs be moving towards IPv6 any time soon? Or will IPv4 exhaustion become the next Y2K?"
I bet that people will be bored of the internet by then
Well duh, why do you think people got on the Internet in the first place? Some military experiment? pffffffft. It's all about the pr0n!
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IPv4 will be exhausted at around the same time as the first commercial fusion power plant is started and the release of Duke Nukem Forever.
Nonsense. If mobile companies do go to VoIP, it will be done in private IP space. The IPv6 fanboys are ridiculous, even Dick Cheney is more believable....
Man, am I glad I've got 192.168.0.100 through 192.168.0.105 setup on my network at home. Hmmm.....maybe I should lay claim to 106 through 110, just in case.....
-- Fugacity: Confusing chemists since 1908
We've been in various stages of Imminent Death of the Net Predicted for at least 25 years. Y2K was merely the last version, and running out of IPv4 is merely the current version.
Just wait until we abandon CSS in order to ensure that an entire page can be rendered by through a single TCP/IPv6 connection. Domain names with vowels! HTML with serifed fonts! Imminent Death of Web 2.0 predicted!
Those are MINE, you THIEF!
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"Is IPv6 so unappealing that they've gotta bribe people with pr0n to use it?"
It worked with IPv4.
Although I shudder to think back to the days of downloading pr0n on a 14.4k modem!
I thinks its all a big con to waste china's money.
Besides by the time they bother to implement it it will all fall apart with the year 2038 problem anyway.
I wonder if the bogon list space is considered?
There will be some guy in an ill fitting suit accosting you, "hey man, got extra IP4?" "I gotta plug in man, I'm jones'ng for some connectivity." "IP6? can't. My colon can't take the colons, 3 dots is all I can handle"
Do it by halves. Use IPv5 to ease the transition.
By 2010 we are going to see a lot of changes on the Internet
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The next protocol IPV6 will support secure internet acces to orphan children, to unmarried mothers, to the girls without parents, to people in the blacklists of the CIA, the FBI and Interpol, to the people wrong imprisoned, to the blind and imbeciles, to the jews, the african muslims, to the pakistanies, to the brazilian and vietnamese children, to the lebanese christians, to every GNU programmer in Vermont and of course, i will be using IPV6 from my grave on the pet cemetary.
That's what means "With liberty and *conectivity* for all"
The migration process is *not going to hurt...
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clearly the real answer here is 42. we should skip right over IPv6 and go to.... IPv42
anything else?
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Just wait until we abandon CSS in order to ensure that an entire page can be rendered by through a single TCP/IPv6 connection. Domain names with vowels! HTML with serifed fonts! Imminent Death of Web 2.0 predicted!
Cats and dogs, lying together ... mass hysteria!
!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.
Well, yeah. That's the "Strategic IP Address Reserve."
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True, but the OP did say "company." DoD isn't really playing in the same league as HP. (Despite HP's best efforts to go into the spying business.) Besides, DoD was responsible for DARPA, which was responsible for the early Internet, so I figure if one group deserves an absurd allocation, it is probably them.
Well, think about it... If you were desperate for an IP and you needed to take somebody else's, who would you pick a fight with?!
So that's... about 330 MILLION IP addresses for the US DoD alone? And people bitch about MIT hoarding!
Perhaps, but when contemplating prying them loose the phrase "you and what army?" may need literal consideration.
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