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IPv4 addresses fall below 5 percent. Is it time for IPv6 yet?

“From the ‘Sky Isn’t Falling’ files:

“The Number Resource Organization (NRO) announced today the less
than 5 percent of the IPv4 address space now remains.

“So what?

“We’ve been hearing about IPv4 address space depletion for years
and various organizations have kept trying to predict the year we’d
‘run out’ of address spaces. The reality is that year after year
IPv4 has continued to stay alive – even as pundits proclaim its
death. The fact that less than 5 percent of IPv4 address remain is
not a cause for U.S. based enterprises or consumers to be
concerned”


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