Ars Technica looked at the conversation at
INET Denver concerning the finite number of IP addresses.
Except:
On Wednesday, the
Internet Society, the Rocky Mountain IPv6 Task Force, and others organized "INET Denver: IPv4 Exhaustion and the Path to IPv6." After seeing the same scene play out in
Asia in 2011 and in
Europe last year, the North American Internet industry seems well-aware that they're next in line to see their access to (almost) free and (fairly) plentiful IP addresses dry up. At this time, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (
ARIN) has
2.44 blocks of 16.78 million IPv4 addresses left. This amount is
predicted to last until April 2014.
Read the rest
here.
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