> P.S. At this point, the IPv6 transition has failed, unlike the Y2K > transition, and > some level of crisis is unavoidable. In desperate times, people take desparate > measures, and "adopting" IP address ranges that are not used by others in > your locality seems a reasonable thing to do when economic survival is at > stake. > > P.P.S. I saw a report that someone, somewhere, had analysed some data > which indicates that IP address allocation rates are increasing and there is > a real possibility that we will runout by the end of this year, 2010. > Does anyone > know where I can find the actual analysis that led to this report?
This is where the claim of runout in December 2010 comes from. <http://news.techworld.com/networking/3227420/last-ipv4-addresses-could-run-out-by-december/> --Michael Dillon