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On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 12:21, Skeeve Stevens wrote:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#8b6914"><I>“The internet is running out of IPv4 space. Global exhaustion is likely to happen in the next 2-3 years, so it’s a critical time for Australia to start contributing to the allocation policies within our region,” said Spencely.</I></FONT>
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While the rhetoric about IPv4 has been heard before, I am not sure that it has given the urgency than it deserves in a lot of circles, especially in the business/corporate space and in the area of tiny, micro, small ISP’s that we work with. <BR>
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And we were running out in " just two to three years time" back in '98 / '99 as well :)<BR>
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FUD... Oh sure it will happen, and possibly in the next decade, but more likely towards the end of it.<BR>
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The biggest problem we have is address space horders<BR>
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