Is an IPv4 auction an appropriate forum to buy or sell IP addresses? There’s a handful of websites out there purporting to provide an auction-style marketplace for scarce number resources. The answer, in a nutshell, is that the risks and drawbacks usually make buying...
The author of the article linked below, without mentioning NAT at all, comes to an important conclusion about IPv4 scarcity. He senses that there is a distinction between the absolute number of devices connected to the Internet and the number of devices which require...
We are often asked about the future of the IPv4 market and I will take some time now to discuss that. The IPv4 Market’s Future APNIC and RIPE have virtually exhausted their free pools and have severely limited new allocations. As of this writing, ARIN has about...
A dual-stack transition model was decided upon by the IETF as the appropriate one to use in the transition from IPV4 to IPV6. This was not unreasonable. Since the benefits of NAT (Network Address Translation) started to become apparent around that same time period,...
Many people feel that upon final exhaust of the available free pool of IPV4 addresses, there will be a significant enough change in the state of things as to cause some kind of upheaval. Either there will be a legislative event or a some kind of universal drive...
