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NRO Warns They Are On Final IPv4 Address Blocks
eldavojohn writes "According to the Number Resources Organization, they will have issued their final twelve IPv4 blocks in a few months. Each block is 16 million addresses and represents 1/256th of the total addresses issued. We are now down to 12 blocks left in the global pool for issuing to Regional Internet Registries, who will then assign the last addresses that will run out sometime later in 2011. The pool of free addresses works out to be less than half of where we were in January. The new numbers from the NRO indicate estimated global pool IP address exhaustion in a few months, a year earlier than they estimated at the beginning of 2010."
I've heard "we'll run out of addresses in one more year" for the last...well, for certain the last 5 years, but possibly longer.
When will this actually happen?
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Get a patent on allowing IP addresses from 256.x.x.x -> 999.x.x.x
We use up almost 2 /8's every month.
Don't you mean 1/4 every month? Remember! Always simplify your fractions.
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So untrue.
If we would reclaim the ips of all porn sites and store the media centralized, say like 127.0.0.1, then we would have nothing to worry about ip shortage.
Or the internet whatsoever.