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ARIN starts a waiting list for IPv4 addresses
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Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#1 - 2015-07-02 01:21:56 UTC
This is significant and historic:

The Internet is running out of IPv4 addresses, and the last sizable block ARIN held (/11 I think, which is 2,097,152 addresses) was handed out, so only smaller blocks (/23 and /24, or 512 and 256 addresses) remain now.

The scraps are expected to be gone by the end of the month.

The waiting list is somewhat pointless, as the only blocks that get returned are from unpaid accounts.

https://www.arin.net/announcements/2015/20150701.html

Meanwhile, some ISPs are offering residential customers /64 IPv6 blocks (18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses). That should be enough for even the largest family Blink

The move to IPv6 should accelerate significantly now.
Xtreem
Knockaround Guys Inc.
#2 - 2015-07-02 11:47:47 UTC
I bet when they came up with IPv4 they thought, damn this will last forever, ahh the internet, was so small back then!
Angelica Dreamstar
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2015-07-02 12:44:16 UTC
Xtreem wrote:
I bet when they came up with IPv4 they thought, damn this will last forever, ahh the internet, was so small back then!

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Teinyhr
Ourumur
#4 - 2015-07-03 06:36:14 UTC
Xtreem wrote:
I bet when they came up with IPv4 they thought, damn this will last forever, ahh the internet, was so small back then!


Well, today everything is on the internet... Smartphones, cars, televisions, fridges, coffee makers.... Inevitably IPv4 would run out eventually. Of course they could not predict that there would be billions upon billions of devices wanting an access to the internet.
Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
EDENCOM DEFENSIVE INITIATIVE
#5 - 2015-07-03 15:16:00 UTC
Xtreem
Knockaround Guys Inc.
#6 - 2015-07-03 16:44:20 UTC
Teinyhr wrote:
Xtreem wrote:
I bet when they came up with IPv4 they thought, damn this will last forever, ahh the internet, was so small back then!


Well, today everything is on the internet... Smartphones, cars, televisions, fridges, coffee makers.... Inevitably IPv4 would run out eventually. Of course they could not predict that there would be billions upon billions of devices wanting an access to the internet.



yup, and if there is not a clearout or making IP harder to obtain then the same will be said of IPv6 in 30 years when we all have multiple bonded fibre (or insert better tech here) and we start to run out again.