Don’t Panic! It’s only the Internet running out of Addresses

“The various Internet management groups made it official this
morning. We’re now out of Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
Internet address blocks. The final five blocks of IPv4 addresses
were given out to the five Regional Internet Registries (RIR),
which, in turn, will distribute these IP addresses to ISPs. That
puts about 80-million more IPv4 addresses in play, but once they’re
gone, they gone: IPv4 game over.

“There was nothing unexpected about the Internet running out of
IPv4 addresses, except for quickly the last few address blocks have
been used up. As Rod Beckstrom, Internet Corporation For Assigned
Names and Numbers (ICANN)’s President and CEO said in the
announcement “This is truly a major turning point in the on-going
development of the Internet. Nobody was caught off guard by this,
the Internet technical community has been planning for IPv4
depletion for quite some time. But it means the adoption of IPv6 is
now of paramount importance, since it will allow the Internet to
continue its amazing growth and foster the global innovation we’ve
all come to expect.”

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