Many in the industry realize that as we migrate to IPv6 there will be a day when IPv4 is not needed anymore. However, that transition seems daunting and may take decades. In the meantime, ...

Network operators continue to demand IPv4 address space and are willing to pay rising prices and enter into potentially risky trading to obtain allocations of the older protocol. Explosive growth of ...

In the early 1990s, internet engineers sounded the alarm: the pool of numeric addresses that identify every device online was not infinite. IPv4, the fourth version of the Internet Protocol, used ...