Comment Cry Wolf! (Score 1) 589
This would be more interesting except for two things. I have heard how we will run out of IPV4 addresses before. In fact I have been hearing this for 10 years or more! It is difficult to get worried about this when we have already passed several of the predicted dates for the "end of the internet". CIDR, DHCP, and NAT have all helped to conserve the available addresses.
Then there is the question of why we should listen to Cisco. They are not in charge of allocating the address space nor do they run the backbone. (Administrate vs. run on their routers.) They do have a vested interest in selling new products to support IPV6.
It is unfortunate that IP didn't start with a bigger address space. Eventually recycling poorly used class A and B blocks is going to run out. Eventually we will move to IPV6 (assuming there isn't an IPV7 by then). But I suspect there is still some room to squeeze and no one is going to change until they have to.
Then there is the question of why we should listen to Cisco. They are not in charge of allocating the address space nor do they run the backbone. (Administrate vs. run on their routers.) They do have a vested interest in selling new products to support IPV6.
It is unfortunate that IP didn't start with a bigger address space. Eventually recycling poorly used class A and B blocks is going to run out. Eventually we will move to IPV6 (assuming there isn't an IPV7 by then). But I suspect there is still some room to squeeze and no one is going to change until they have to.
