On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 03:49:06PM +0000, Linda Olofsson Hoff wrote:
> My name is Linda and I am writing a thesis about IPv6 and I am wondering
> if you've made some investigation/estimation about when we are out of IPv4
> addresses?
>
> Magazines report different numbers but do not tell why and they doesn't
> direct to any examination.
The traditional estimates are all in the 2003 to 2007 range, I think,
but vary. E.g., http://www.pcin.net/archive/2001/20010124.shtml estimate 2005.
However, although not all possible address blocks are allocated yet, lots
of the connected machines already don't connect through real addresses, but
either through "socks" or "proxy" style gateways or through "Network Address
Translation" boxes. These methods only allow for a few applications to work,
but don't provide a truly transparent general purpose network, so in my
opinion we're effectively at the 110% mark already.
About the transparency issue, read Brian Carpenters talk at
http://www.hursley.ibm.com/~bc/transp/transp.htm
Regards,
-is
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