A possible fix arrived in December 1995 in the form of RFC 1883, the first definition of IPv6, the planned successor to IPv4.

Internet policymakers officially handed out the last five blocks of IPv4 address space to each of the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) at a ceremony held in Miami Thursday morning. BACKGROUND: IPv4 ...

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has handed out its last IPv4 addresses, leaving the remaining blocks to regional registries that in some cases may exhaust them within a few months. The ...

Psst! Wanna buy a used IP address? In as little as 18 months, the world may run out of IP addresses, which could lead to the emergence of an illicit market in IP address trafficking, says John Curran, ...

Global adoption trends, energy efficiency, and coexistence strategies discussed for a smooth transition from IPv4 to IPv6. Rather than a binary all-or-nothing choice between the two protocols, network ...

I'm looking for more information about having IPv4-only devices (embedded, legacy, etc) on a network that is otherwise IPv6-only, with IPv6-only Internet access. It's academic at this point, but I can ...