Myth of Address shortage

A typical example of an article based on this myth is a report by BBC online, which claimed that IPv4 address space would be exhausted by 2005. Following are several responses to that article which seek to establish the facts:

• Response by RIPE NCC
• Article by Scott Bradner (ARIN Board member)
• Article by Andrew McLaughlin (Harvard Law school, formerly of ICANN)

APNIC's Geoff Huston has conducted an analysis of IPv4 consumption rates, which is available in the following forms:

• Article "IPv4 How long have we got"
• Presentation to IEPG "IPv4 address lifetime expectancy"

APNIC and the other RIRs also publish regular allocation statistic reports which are linked from this site.