Whatever happened to the IPv4 address crisis?

[A Guy]

In February 2011, the global Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated the last blocks of IPv4 address space to the five regional Internet registries. At the time, experts warned that within months all available IPv4 addresses in the world would be distributed to ISPs.

Soon after that, unless everyone upgraded to IPv6, the world would be facing a crisis that would hamper Internet connectivity for everyone. That crisis would be exacerbated by the skyrocketing demand for IP addresses due to a variety of factors: the Internet of Things (refrigerators needing their own IP address); wearables (watches and glasses demanding connectivity); BYOD (the explosion of mobile devices allowed to connect to the corporate network); and the increase in smartphone use in developing countries.

So, here we are three years later and the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) is still doling out IPv4 addresses in the United States and Canada.

Whatever happened to the IPv4 address crisis?

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A Guy

 

[kbrady1979]

Around this time they decided to buy back huge blocks of unused addresses

 

[Kaktussoft]

smartphones, byod, internet of things .... they all connect using a corporate proxy server, or home router.... so have an address like 192.168.x.y or 10.x.y.z. So not using a real routable ip address.