John Schultz

On February 3rd of this year, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) who according to their website “is the body responsible for coordinating some of the key elements that keep the Internet running smoothly,” assigned the last 5 remaining blocks of IPv4 addresses to the five Regional Internet Registries. One of the five, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) assures us that they still have a pool of available addresses and will continue to assign those addresses in accordance with documented policy. To help put the folks who get all edgy at rest they are publishing daily updates on their website linked above. All that being said I’ve still seen quite a bit of hype about the rapidly depleting quantity of available IPv4 addresses so I thought I’d take a moment to address the issues at hand.
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I want you to take a minute to stop and think about how many times you have participated in some sort of electronic conversation today. How many instant messages, emails, telephone calls and text messages have you been involved in? Think about how much money there is to be made if one company could have its hand in every form of that communication. One company does this so well that many people don’t even notice how much it affects them.
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