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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story from RIPE (Réseaux IP Européens):
Today we allocated the last of our contiguous /22 IPv4 address blocks. We still have approximately one million addresses available, in the form of /23s and /24s, and we will continue making /22-equivalent allocations made up of these smaller blocks. Once we can no longer allocate the equivalent of a /22, we will announce that we have reached run-out. We expect this to occur in November 2019.
Following our last update in August, we received a very high number of new LIR[*] applications. We have now reached a point where the number of LIRs waiting to be activated is larger than the number of /22-equivalents remaining. This means that some of these LIRs will only be eligible to request a /24 via the waiting list by the time they are activated. We alerted these applicants to this possibility during the application process.
Due to the number of new LIR applications still to be processed, we estimate that it could be around eight weeks before we get to an application that is submitted today. To ensure fairness, we are processing all LIR applications (and IPv4 requests) in the order they were received.
It is important to note that the delay is only with LIR applications - not IPv4 requests. Existing members can still request their final /22 allocations, provided we still have addresses available.
[*] LIR: Local Internet Registry.
What, if any, measures have you taken to deal with this?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 08 2019, @01:09AM (10 children)
IPv6 address space is too small.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 08 2019, @01:17AM (9 children)
I can't memorize 2600:3c00::f03c:91ff:fe98:90b
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 08 2019, @01:35AM (3 children)
I can't memorize this URL. Good thing I have a Clip Board.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 08 2019, @01:48AM (2 children)
Clippy, take me to soylentnews.org
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 08 2019, @02:12AM
Mai Waifu Alexa, navigate me to comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=34007&commentsort=0&mode=threadtng&threshold=-1&page=1&cid=903929#commentwrap
(Score: 2, Funny) by DECbot on Tuesday October 08 2019, @06:46AM
It looks like you are attempting to write a website. Would you like me to open a new HTML template in Word?
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 08 2019, @01:56AM (2 children)
This is kind of actually a small part of the problem. IPv6 is less convenient to use, even when it works, because the addresses are not suitable for humans to use directly. Lots of IPv4 applications, especially involving peer-to-peer gaming, expect the users to work directly with IP addresses. But there are other cases too, like tech support. IPv4 is just more convenient when humans need to get directly involved.
While the problem is really the fault of the lack of useful DNS for non-server addresses, nevertheless it exists.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 08 2019, @02:11AM
AppleTalk solved the problem by defining a standard Name Binding Protocol and never showing addresses to users.
IPv6 has no such solution, but many competing workarounds exist: mDNS, DNS-SD, LLMNR, SSDP, and others.
Naming isn't hard. IPv6 just doesn't do it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 08 2019, @01:52PM
you have plain dns, but even if ipv6 address look hard to work by humans, in reality is not that hard.
the first half is your network and after some time working with it it the same as memorizing 192.168.52.xxx
the second half can be your mac address, while longer than the ipv4 address is not that hard to work with... and the best part is that it is that you can change it, you can use (network address)::1 or (network address):1:2:3:4 or even (network address):1:5ee:bad:c0de
so yes, while longer, its that much different from ipv4, most people can't memorize ipv4 and with sometime working with ipv6 you end memorize the network address anyway... the rest is either the mac or what ever you choose.
But again, really, use DNS! any game or app that require IPV4 address, if they add iIPV6, they can also add dns resolution!
(Score: 2) by ledow on Tuesday October 08 2019, @07:21AM
I haven't memorised an IP address in my life - at best I remember the suffix, and the prefix changes on every site I ever work.
That's what DNS is for.
All you need to know are the IPs for your DNS and gateway, and if you have anything like common sense, you make those end with 1, 2 and 3 with a common prefix that is easy to discover (and you won't even need that unless you're dealing with servers etc. as literally 99% of people on the Internet have no idea what their external IP is at any particular time).
Everything else from from address discovery (DHCP and IPv6 equivalents) and DNS.
You know your argument is weak when it comes up with junk like this. Tell me - how many people's mobile phone numbers do you have memorised?
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday October 08 2019, @08:05AM
Which is why we have DNS - you should try it sometime. You only have to remember things like soylentnews.org.