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These articles are slightly misleading. The blocks have been assigned to ISPs, not to Users. There is a still a modestly large (albeit shrinking) pool of IPv4
by brk 16y ago
These articles are slightly misleading. The blocks have been assigned to ISPs, not to Users. There is a still a modestly large (albeit shrinking) pool of IPv4 addresses available for end-user use. I still don't anticipate actual scarcity of IPv4 address space for another few years, though it sucks if you try to start an ISP in that time, as you likely wouldn't be abel to get any IPv4 address space allocated to you.
- joeyh 16y agoNo, they have been assigned to RIRs, not ISPs. The RIRs have their own pools that they can assign to new ISPs.
- brk 16y agoYes, true, but last time I was involved it was getting pretty difficult for startup ISP's to get allocations. You pretty much had to get a temporary allocation from an existing provider until you got large enough to justify your own directly-allocated netblocks. Anyway, I wasn't trying to get overly deep with my original post, just point out that in this case "fully allocated" is far from "no more available addresses".