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by augustz 2937 days ago
"the world is out of IPv4 addresses" should really be written "the world if out of FREE IPv4 addresses".

I wish the IPv6 promotion pieces would include that because when I read news articles about this (or someone tells me there are no more IPv4 addresses) they always include this statement that you can't get IPv4 addresses anymore and so things like new services can only use IPv6.
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kstrauser 2937 days ago
> "the world is out of IPv4 addresses" should really be written "the world if out of FREE IPv4 addresses".

That is true of almost everything. Endangered species could be brought back by a trillionaire willing to invest in cloning technology and large land reserves. We can make more helium if we had a do-or-die mandate and sufficient fusion tech. We won't run out of oil as long as we have the ability to manufacture more.

Nothing ever really goes away. But very often, scarcity increases the amount of resources (typically of the monetary sort) required to acquire more of it.

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cornholio 2937 days ago
The IPv4 address market is a dangerous kludge that makes the internet worse and more expensive for everybody else.
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Rotdhizon 2937 days ago
Most every article ever written about the IPv4 vs IPv6 debacle outside of the knowledgeable tech sector is usually false in some big way.
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bovermyer 2937 days ago
> Most every article ever written about technology outside of the knowledgeable tech sector is usually false in some big way.

Fixed that for you.

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belorn 2937 days ago
One could replace "the world is out of IPv4 addresses" with "Internet Assigned Numbers Authority that oversees global IP address allocations is out of IPv4 addresses and is not giving out any more". The question is how many would know the difference between those two statements. Is the distinction between an independent ipv4 address allocation and an ipv4 address allocation something which news articles should highlight in this kind of articles in order the explain that one can buy independent ipv4 address from IPv4 brokers but it has nothing to do with IANA (mostly, further details need to be used in order to correctly make that statement).
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