IPv4 Will Not Die In 2010

darthcamaro writes "A couple of years ago, the big shots at IANA (that's the people that handle internet addressing) issued a release stating that the IPv4 address space was likely to be gone by 2010. Here we are in 2010 and guess what, IPv4 with its 4.3 billion addresses will NOT be all used up this year. In fact there could be another two years worth of addresses still left at this point. 'We're at about 10.2 percent (IPv4 address space) remaining globally,' John Curran, president and CEO of ARIN said. 'At our current trend rate we've got about 625 days before we will not have new IPv4 addresses available. We're still handling IPv4 requests from ISPs, hosting companies and large users for IPv4 address space, but that's a very short time period.'"

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[mrpacmanjel]

"...At our current trend rate we've got about 625 days before we will not have new IPv4 addresses available..."

I think this:http://www.xkcd.com/605/ sums it up

Re:Panic Averted - Resume Doing Nothing

[Abcd1234]

Someone should write some software that can be put on a router that would offer the same protection without also causing all the problems that come with NAT. It would be like this large barrier that burns up any unauthorized data that tries to get by.

Yeah yeah! You mean like that, you know, wall-thing they put in cars between the passengers and the engine compartment in a car. You know, the thing that's meant to stop people from being burned by some sort of, like, fire or something? Man, what a great idea!

Re:Panic Averted - Resume Doing Nothing

[Chris Burke]

Grandparent:
It would be like this large barrier that burns up any unauthorized data that tries to get by.

Parent:
You mean like that, you know, wall-thing they put in cars between the passengers and the engine compartment in a car.

Ah, and the difference between people who's visualization of a "fire wall" comes from real life, versus Advanced Dungeons and Dragons becomes clear. ;)