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The long discussed and debated transition to IPv6 did not happen over the past ten years with the objectives of achieving a smooth and low-cost Internet sustainability through incremental refresh of technology. The source can be traced back in the mixed messages sent to industry on the hard-to-justify ROI, the address depletion confusion (between 2010 by Tony Hain -2030 by Geoff Houston) and the invented myth of lack of market demand as IP is a simple plumbing that only engineers should fix and offer as an extended service to sustain the Internet growth and continuity. Now, it's abundantly clear that the address space is going to be consumed in just the next 24 months, putting an end to the growth of the Internet. The address space is now down to just 12% left. Well congrats! http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html

No IPv4 addresses means simply no new routers can be connected, no new email servers …