The Digital Texas Tea (IPv4)
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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