First off the article is talking about the Internet and not just any internet. The I needs capitalized.

Secondly this is only an issue with public addresses and is not with private addresses which is how we have survived since this issue first appeared way back in 1996 when dire predictions were made. Most people are using private addresses a where one public is used by a number of devices. If your IP address is 192.168.x.x or 172.x.x.x or 10.x.x.x where x could be a number between 1 and 254 you have a private address.

Third a large number of people are using IPv6 now with IPv4 and do not know it. If you are on Vista or 7 you are set on both versions.

Last the US Federal government certified last summer all their routing equipment is using IPv6 and also IPv4

I am a MCSE, net+, and have taught and done networking 20+ years.

The article is at http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/05/27/internet.crunch.2012/index.html

Dwight

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