Last of IPv4 addresses assigned as focus turns to IPv6

Each of the five regional Internet registries has been allocated a single block of around 16 million addresses. During true exhaustion would be hard to gauge -- a small number of IP addresses will be held for several years for the transition -- the rate at which the different registrars will burn through their allocations will likely vary.

"No one was caught off guard by this," ICANN president and CEO Rod Beckstrom said in a statement. "Adoption of IPv6 is however of paramount importance, since it will allow the Internet to continue its amazing growth and foster the global research we've all come to expect."

While partly this would work in theory, it may cause headaches for the routing of IP-to-IP traffic. This makes that option only a temporary fix in the best case.

Every device does not need a in a class by itself IP address on a global scope.The only ip address that matters are the ones that talk to the outside world.If you pay for internet service, you are using 1 IP address for the modem and thats it. Not one for every computer and network enabled phone.....

-The only ip address that matters are the ones that talk to the outside world--(IE your modem at home)-Yes and no. Your home router to illustrate does NOT talk to the outside world. It talks to the ISP. Internally After all uses IPv4. So those IP's everything considered do not matter, since they don't route IPv6 traffic.In a word your router, phone, and computer talk to some other router which is on an internal Network, and it is along these lines NOT required for those devices to talk IPv6.ONLY the ISP's would need IPv6 upgrades- you are using 1 IP address for the modem and thats it-Some ISP's can assign static IP's. I did this with Clear, so I have *2* routable IP's to my router at home, now that is All the same only only on clear network, because those IP's were pre-existing. Some ISP's can assign many IP in the IPv4 range for years to come, they can reuse IP's and depending on how many clients they have, they may never run out...

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Verizon is nevertheless quietly taking measures to curb those that may put a strain on its data network amid high demand for the iPhone 4.

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