Updated 10-04-2008 – Here’s a good graphical representation of the status of IPv4 addresses from ars Technica.
Updated 03-21-08 – Here’s a doomsday clock for the end of the IPv4 world, courtesy of the IPv4 Address Report
Gadget by Takashi Arano’s Intec NetCore
(Details here).
ars Technica has an article where ARIN is encouraging migration to IPv6. The article states there are still IPv4 addresses available until 2010. An ARIN spokesperson told ars that “19 percent of the IPv4 address space is still available, with 13 percent unavailable and 68 percent “allocated.”
The group is reluctant to make predictions on when the supply of IPv4 addresses will run out, choosing instead to watch distribution and consumption trends so that others can do the predicting. “Those forecasts have some variation, but it is clear that this could be an issue as soon as 2010.”
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