Internet Now Full
There are fewer than 17 million IPv4 internet address remaining in North America, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) reported in April.
This means that officially the internet is full.
The IPv4 standard allows for 4.295 billion addresses worldwide. As 536 million of them are reserved, there is only about 3.7 billion usable.
There are 7 billion people in the world.
The web has reached its limit.
The solution is to advance to the IPv6 standard — IP means Internet Protocol and the “v” stands for version — which would provide 2 followed by 128 zeros worth of addresses.
The sticking point is that IPv4 and IPv6 are not compatible.
We feel it will all work out somehow.
If you think about it, it is kind of a good problem.
Internet now full and time is running out to fix the problem.
