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At Current Rates, Only a Few More Years' Worth of IPv4 Addresses

Posted by timothy on from the so-last-decade dept.

An anonymous reader excerpts from an interesting article at Ars Technica, which begins "There are 3,706,650,624 usable IPv4 addresses. On January 1, 2000, approximately 1,615 million (44 percent) were in use and 2,092 million were still available. Today, ten years later, 2,985 million addresses (81 percent) are in use, and 722 million are still free. In that time, the number of addresses used per year increased from 79 million in 2000 to 203 million in 2009. So it's a near certainty that before Barack Obama vacates the White House, we'll be out of IPv4 address[es]. (Even if he doesn't get re-elected.)"

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  1. No need to panic. by geekmux · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "...So it's a near certainty that before Barack Obama vacates the White House, we'll be out of IPv4 address[es]...

    Ah, that's OK. I hear he's still got Al Gores number. Hell, they're practically Nobel Prize bosom buddies now. Al should have an answer. After all, he invented this whole thing, right? You know, kind of like how he invented Global Warming?

    Ah, nothing like a hot cup of sarcasm with a touch of irony to keep warm...

    1. Re:No need to panic. by fm6 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Ah, nothing like a hot cup of sarcasm with a touch of irony to keep warm...

      Nothing like repeating the same old "stupid liberal" cliches for the millionth time.

    2. Re:No need to panic. by hedwards · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      It's really irritating to still be hearing that long since debunked claim that Gore claimed to invent the internet. In the video where he supposedly claimed that he invented the internet he says nothing more than that he took initiative on the internet. Implying that it must have previously existed to take initiative on. Which for politicians of that day was somewhat remarkable considering the almost complete lack of competence in the area in general.

    3. Re:No need to panic. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It's really irritating to still be hearing that long since debunked claim that Gore claimed to invent the internet. In the video where he supposedly claimed that he invented the internet he says nothing more than that he took initiative on the internet

      Actually the quote is "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

      'initiative' = "A beginning or introductory step; an opening move: took the initiative in trying to solve the problem." [freedictionary.com]

      'create' = To cause to exist; bring into being. [freedictionary.com]

      So, substituting the meaning for the words in his sentence, you get "During my service in the United States Congress, I took a beginning or introductory step in causing the Internet to exist."

      Sorry, still sounds like he's claiming to have invented the Internet.

    4. Re:No need to panic. by Jonner · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Yeah, you're right about the Internet thing. But Gore did invent global warming! I just wonder how long before we have to start getting a giant ice cube from a distant planetoid every once in a while.

  2. yuo Fa1l It!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fucking percent of the last nigHt of BSD machines,