Third Generation Internet Revealed: Reinventing Computer Networks with IPv6

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L. E. HughesThird Generation Internet Revealedhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8603-6_4

4. The Depletion of the IPv4 Address Space

Lawrence E. Hughes¹  

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Frisco, TX, USA

 

Some people today are aware that the folks in charge of the Internet are running out (or have already run out) of public IPv4 addresses . Most of them are not aware that this is not the first time we’ve faced this or just how low that pool of addresses is today. The majority of Internet users are either completely oblivious to what is going on and think that the Internet will go on like it has, forever. If they have heard any rumors about an address shortage, they have a blind faith that ...