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Just watched a vid by Vint Cerf (one of the creators of the internet itself) and he had this tidbit on one of his slides that he didn't really talk about at all.

21:16 - "IPv4 runout in 2011"

So what does this really mean?? Should we be really looking at this closer than we are? What are the implications of this. From what I have seen, IPv6 (the replacement) is nowhere near implemented on a global scale yet.

This could be what we anticipated for the year 2000 but got wrong? Worth considering I believe.

For the people that may not understand what IPv4 is (and why Vint saying this means so much), is basically he created the internet using a specific protocol and it evolved as such into IPv4. We currently use IPv4 to manage pretty much everything on the internet from domains to whatever.

Now, per say, imagine that all of a sudden no more ips can be made. A complete traffic jam occurs and now you have all these machines trying to connect to the internet but there is nobody letting them on? My guess is that there are many factors that we have not even come close to addressing on this.