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.'"

IPv4 not dying...

[gandhi_2]

IPv4 not dying... Enterprise Networking Planet confirms it!

That just doesn't have the same ring to it. ):

Trends

[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/ [xkcd.com] sums it up

Re:IPv4 doesn't die

[A beautiful mind]

Old programmers don't die, they just use an exploit to induce an overflow in the "time left to live" counter that runs the Reaper's scheduler.

Re:Panic Averted - Resume Doing Nothing

[Nursie]

Issues that NAT causes? Like shielding n00bs from the wilds of the internet?

NAT is a blessing. It allows people to access the net without being exposed to it.

2012?

[Xacid]

Maybe THIS is the end of the world everyone's talking about...

Re:Panic Averted - Resume Doing Nothing

[Hadlock]

How about incinerator pit? Please contact me so I can get you in touch with my venture capitalists' financing division.

Re:World endsz in 2012 anyway

[jellomizer]

Will his website be at address 255.255.255.254?

Re:We're on slashdot, right?

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought they were people who managed "I am not a ..." jokes. You know, like "IANAL" and "IANACS" and so on.

I always wondered who managed all those "not me" acronyms. Guess I'll have to keep wondering. Maybe it's Taco.

Re:Panic Averted - Resume Doing Nothing

[Anonymous Coward]

So this is that big change that the Mayans forecast for 2012....

Re:2012

[jack2000]

Yeah if only there was a way to assign names to these hard to remember numbers, universal names that anyone can use to get to that exact ip address that they wanted. Dumb people will use the name system all the time!
OH I KNOW! We'll name it DUMB NAME SYSTEM! DNS for short!

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

[omnichad]

coal, Y2k38 bug, exhaustion of hydrogen in the sun, universe expansion...

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. ;)

Re:Not entirely true

[Dirtside]

then every RIR gets one last /8 from the "final five"

And if BSG taught us anything, it's that the final five won't be who you expect!