<story><title>Whatever happened to the IPv4 address crisis?</title><url>http://www.networkworld.com/news/2014/021714-ipv4-278692.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kordless</author><text>I can assure you the US is feeling the brunt of the IPv4 crunch.  I&amp;#x27;m building something that needs massive amounts of public address space and I simply can&amp;#x27;t get IPv4 addresses for it.  I&amp;#x27;ve asked multiple providers.  You are LUCKY if you can get a &amp;#x2F;28 at this point.  Hoarding.  Rolling with IPv6 instead.&lt;p&gt;I get you have an interest in the Qatar&amp;#x2F;Wikipedia situation, but it seems to be unlikely due to IP address resource management issues.  Probably more like tyrannical control, if anything.</text></item><item><author>chimeracoder</author><text>This article is focused on the US, a country which was never really going to feel the brunt of the IPv4 crunch.&lt;p&gt;For an example of a &lt;i&gt;real&lt;/i&gt; victim, look at Qatar, a country which only has a single IP address &lt;i&gt;for the entire country&lt;/i&gt; (everyone sits behind a NAT): &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Qatari_proxy_IP_address_temporarily_blocked_on_Wikipedia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikinews.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Qatari_proxy_IP_address_tempora...&lt;/a&gt; [0]&lt;p&gt;Whenever someone from Qatar decides to vandalize Wikipedia, Wikipedia is forced (temporarily) to block the entire country from accessing Wikipedia. This has an adverse impact on the rest of the country.&lt;p&gt;Non-Qatari Wikipedia users also suffer, because Wikipedia makes those blocks very temporary (since they are effectively shutting off an entire country), which makes it easy for those vandals to regain access to Wikipedia quickly.&lt;p&gt;[0] This sad state of affairs is not &lt;i&gt;solely&lt;/i&gt; due to IPv4 (incompetent&amp;#x2F;apathetic network administrators are also at fault), but it&amp;#x27;s a contributing factor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icedchai</author><text>Then there are guys like me.  I have a &amp;#x2F;24 routed to my home (pre-ARIN legacy space registered in the early 90&amp;#x27;s!)</text></comment>
<story><title>Whatever happened to the IPv4 address crisis?</title><url>http://www.networkworld.com/news/2014/021714-ipv4-278692.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kordless</author><text>I can assure you the US is feeling the brunt of the IPv4 crunch.  I&amp;#x27;m building something that needs massive amounts of public address space and I simply can&amp;#x27;t get IPv4 addresses for it.  I&amp;#x27;ve asked multiple providers.  You are LUCKY if you can get a &amp;#x2F;28 at this point.  Hoarding.  Rolling with IPv6 instead.&lt;p&gt;I get you have an interest in the Qatar&amp;#x2F;Wikipedia situation, but it seems to be unlikely due to IP address resource management issues.  Probably more like tyrannical control, if anything.</text></item><item><author>chimeracoder</author><text>This article is focused on the US, a country which was never really going to feel the brunt of the IPv4 crunch.&lt;p&gt;For an example of a &lt;i&gt;real&lt;/i&gt; victim, look at Qatar, a country which only has a single IP address &lt;i&gt;for the entire country&lt;/i&gt; (everyone sits behind a NAT): &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Qatari_proxy_IP_address_temporarily_blocked_on_Wikipedia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikinews.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Qatari_proxy_IP_address_tempora...&lt;/a&gt; [0]&lt;p&gt;Whenever someone from Qatar decides to vandalize Wikipedia, Wikipedia is forced (temporarily) to block the entire country from accessing Wikipedia. This has an adverse impact on the rest of the country.&lt;p&gt;Non-Qatari Wikipedia users also suffer, because Wikipedia makes those blocks very temporary (since they are effectively shutting off an entire country), which makes it easy for those vandals to regain access to Wikipedia quickly.&lt;p&gt;[0] This sad state of affairs is not &lt;i&gt;solely&lt;/i&gt; due to IPv4 (incompetent&amp;#x2F;apathetic network administrators are also at fault), but it&amp;#x27;s a contributing factor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jlgaddis</author><text>I know of multiple providers who have gotten allocations in the last month (up to &amp;#x2F;19) and will be requesting another one myself in the near future.  ARIN has plenty of IPs.</text></comment>