Whenever we publish stories about the IPv4 address depletion or IPv6, people make comments along the lines of "does MIT really need a class A IPv4 block with 16,777,216 addresses?" Apparently Interop, ...

In April, ARIN, the (North) American Registry for Internet Numbers, announced that it had reached “phase 4” of its IPv4 countdown plan, with fewer than 17 million IPv4 addresses remaining. There is no ...

Network engineer Ben Cox wrote in a blog post that in some circumstances, the 'Class E space,' which is in a state of standardization limbo, could be used to fill the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses. IP ...

In the early 1990s, internet engineers sounded the alarm: the pool of numeric addresses that identify every device online was not infinite. IPv4, the fourth version of the Internet Protocol, used ...