CircleID

Like with global warming, there is still a school of thought out there arguing that this running out of IP addresses is just fear mongering and that we are not really running out of IPv4 addresses as a NATted world is more than adequate to run the Internet for the foreseeable future.

Interesting assertion for someone to make, particularly given that ISP's receiving large contiguous IPv4 blocks today add hundreds of customers per new route, and that once these blocks are no longer available, each and every new customer connected (via NAT or not) will add a new route since the addresses will be from someplace other than a contiguous block.

That particular school of thought only works when "foreseeable future" equals "for one or two years after RIR IPv4 depletion"…

/John