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Here's an interesting article from the folks over at Infoworld. http://www.infoworld.com/print/121729

It echoes what all the doomsayers have been legitimately proclaiming for years, that is that the imminent exhaustion of public IPv4 address space is going to have some serious effects on the Internet at large as well as create some very specific connectivity issues to its diverse (and needy!) customers. An interesting spin in the article is the concern that the recent acceleration of allocation of IPv4 addresses will likely spur the creation of a blackmarket for IPv4 addresses. Interesting concept and a bit scary! Supply and demand, really.

Instead of making do with a number of bandaids and quick fixes to the existing and known problem of IPv4 addresses (NAT-PT, IPv6 ov IPv4 tunnels, etc) we should just get our thumbs out and ....you know...connect! It is almost trivially easy for service providers who are already connected natively and without translation to the IPv6 Internet core to start allocating IPv6 addresses from their almost infinite pools. Why hasn't this been done yet? Trepidation, fear of the unknown? Nope! It's all about the money! Unfortunately, until the migration to IPv6 is seen as an economic necessity, we're unlikely to see widespread adoption of IPv6, at least in North America and the western world.

Still an interesting read though........