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Protect Your Pre-1997 IP Address
CWmike writes "With IPv4 space running out any day now, is your legacy IP address space safe? Marc Lindsey writes that if your company obtained its IP address space before 1997, you have probably received several letters from the American Registry for Internet Numbers encouraging you to enter into a contractual agreement to protect the IP address. But should you sign it? Be careful — there are several issues you should consider before signing up for this, writes Lindsey, who offers a deeper look at the issue."
Big dollars? Are you nuts? 99% of all operating systems released since Windows ME have support for IPv6. The hardest part of the upgrade is actually switching over to it. There is no hardware to upgrade and there is no software to upgrade.
They will once IPv4 runs out.
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
Yeah like what happened to them is really likely to happen to the average person. Grow up.