Wow, of course this makes sense but hurry up and fix the problem already....

"Hey, lets wait until, the whole system colapses, no need to anything until then, why spend the money"

Then..., Build something new and improved and start all over, lots of profit to be made there... (and who cares about the public, as long as we make money!)

Seriously, slap a lies on this video. What a CATO nutjob usual lack of facts. (Penn is the biggest hypocrite). There are plenty of IP4, and people can give them back.

Each one of these is over 16 million addresses.
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/

I mean the DoD has over 150 million addresses.
Here's a map if you've never seen it.
http://dd.dynamicdiagrams.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/IP-map.gif

Not true joe, the rate of ip4 uptake is not constant, and the rate of ip4 returns isnt keeping up with it.

At some point within the next 10 years, we will run out of allocatable address space.

And dual-stack IP6 wont cut it either, cause you still need ip4 addys to run with it.

Vendors dont currently make any ip6 only compatible CPE, and the commercial grade stuff that ISP's buy still isnt anywhere near ready for full deployment. It lacks key stuff thats required to be able to fully service customers.

Its a big issue...cause when space runs out, you may be waiting 10-20 min, or even more, just to get a connection to the net.

Heres a forum posting I made on an aussie ISP website called Whirlpool, sparking up a discussion about this exact issue with several of australias leading ISP engineers. (They have "ISP representative" under their names).

A lengthy, but decent read.

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/867470.html

Total FUD. We could live on IPv4 forever. Will we? No, IPv6 is pretty mature now, and I've set up quite a bit of hardware and software for it, not just tunneled. But do we need it? No way. Worst case scenario is the ISPs have to start kludging. NAT every client past their IP allotment. Let people 'stand in line' for a real IP if they need it. Whatever, it's still not going to bring the Interwebs to its knees.

As for hosting, the web already has too many useless web sites. Hosting providers may just have to be slightly conservative and use more vhosting... oh noes! Net difference to the end user? None.

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