could run out of addresses as early as next year

Baack · Nov 4, 2009

Without an immediate technology transition, the Internet could run out of addresses as early as next year, warns a new report.
The survey, conducted by the European Commission, found that of the 610 government, educational and other industry organizations questioned across Europe, the Middle East and Asia, just 17 per cent have upgraded to a new Internet addressing technique called IPv6.
These aren't the Web address you type into a browser to surf to your favorite website, but rather the underlying Internet protocol addresses that denote individual devices connected to the Internet. These form the foundation for all online communications, from e-mail and web pages to voice chat and streaming video.
And they're almost gone.
"We'll be down to our last tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of web addresses by the end of next year," warned Sam Pickles, lead enterprise engineer of F5 Networks, in an interview with the Telegraph. "New companies looking to establish a presence on the internet will have no option but to adopt the IPv6 address format."
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Nophix · Nov 4, 2009

That's because the original licensing scheme wasted about a few billion addresses. IPv6 is a bloody nightmare!

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