Anyway, 340-undecillion does sound a lot ..
ICANN Announcements
20 May 2014
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2014-05-20-en
Remaining IPv4 Addresses Nearing Total Exhaustion
ICANN announced today that it has begun the process of allocating the remaining
blocks of Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses to the five Regional
Internet Registries (RIR).
The activation of this procedure was triggered when the Latin America and
Caribbean Network Information Centre's (LACNIC) supply of IPv4 addresses
dropped to below 8 million.
This move signals that the global supply of IPv4 addresses is reaching a
critical level.
As more and more devices come online, the demand for IP addresses rises, and
IPv4 is incapable of supplying enough addresses to facilitate this expansion.
ICANN encourages network operators around the globe to adopt IPv6, which allows
for the rapid growth of the Internet.
"We are grateful for the guidance we've received from the RIRs as the number of
unallocated IPv4 addresses dwindles," said Elise Gerich, Vice President of IANA
and Technical Operations at ICANN.
To handle this critical drop in the numbers available, the five RIRs' policy
making communities have established a policy for the equal redistribution by
ICANN. This is known as the allocation phase outlined in the Global Policy for
Post Exhaustion IPv4 Allocation Mechanisms.
"The IANA IPv4 Recovered Address Space registry contained about 20 million IPv4
addresses earlier today and is now about half that size," said Leo Vegoda,
Operational Excellence Manager at ICANN.
"Redistributing increasingly small blocks of IPv4 address space is not a
sustainable way to grow the Internet. IPv6 deployment is a requirement for any
network that needs to survive."
IPv6 facilitates the exponential growth of the Internet by providing
340-undecillion unique addresses, compared to the 3.7 billion afforded by IPv4.
"To continue to fuel the economic growth and opportunity that is brought by the
Internet, we are at the point where rapid adoption of IPv6 is a necessity to
maintain that growth," said Gerich.
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Cheers,
Stephen
Black holes might be dead pixels
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