Thread: 2012 the end ... addresses in IPv4

If sealed in 2012, as some pessimists, the end of humanity is also the date that many experts point to the Internet to pull the alarm bell about the exhaustion of IP addresses to the standard v4. Specialists who would like the campaigns move to IPv6 are by now launched by the media-access providers and that IPv4 is better controlled.

According to them, IPv4 addresses have been assigned in any way, without common sense, which leads today to expect a shortage of IPv4 addresses by 2012. Recall that an estimated 4.3 billion the number of available IPv4 addresses. In 1993, 40% of these addresses had already been distributed. According to recent polls in France, reserved addresses allocated or have already been reserved at 70%. The same figure is 60% in England and 62% in the United States.

Alerted by European scholars of the question, Viviane Reding, European Commissioner, had already called on EU countries to ensure that IPv6 starts to be massively adopted. And in 2008.
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