Cisco has only the best interests in mind... (Score 1)

Cisco has an interesting article talking about estimates for the exhaustion of the IPv4 address space, and the inevitable move to IPv6. It predicts that the IPv4 address space will be exhausted in 2 - 10 years and suggests that it isn't worth trying to reclaim old allocations.

And I'm sure Cisco would be happy to provide the new equipment necessary for such an upgrade, for a small fee of course.

As far as I can tell, there are more than enough IPv4 addresses to go around -- I'm sorry but no matter how much the average slashdotter wants it to happen, my toaster does not need its own IP on the network. I haven't seen any good examples of why IPv6 is needed. As they say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Anyone who adds that "well IPv4 is inherently broke.." will get a swift kick in the ass.