February 3rd 1953, French oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau publishes "The Silent World", a memoir about his time exploring the oceans. It became a highly acclaimed documentary in 1956.

February 3rd 1959 ... "The Day the Music Died" ... Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and JP Richardson (aka The Big Bopper) die in a plane crash.

February 3rd 2011 ... "The Day the Internet Died" ... all available IPv4-addresses have been exhausted that day..

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On 03 Feb 22 18:24:03, Ward Dossche said the following to All:

February 3rd 2011 ... "The Day the Internet Died" ... all available IPv4-addresses have been exhausted that day..

And in 2011 I was employed at a large office in the financial district in downtown Toronto where there was a public non-CGNAT /24 and /25 subnet in use... with the rep from that ISP eager to kiss my behind to sell me more.

In 2016 and into '17 when I consulted on a database project there was a piece pertaining to obtaining a quote for allocating static IP addresses for a dozen planned servers at a data centre in Toronto. Once again, I had sales reps eager to kiss my behind with whatever public IPV4 addressing schemes I wanted.

A few years ago when I set up the Linux virtual machine via. Ovh in Montreal to host my personal sites and the fido-z1 site, I was presented at signup with a webpage kissing my behind with options for public IPV4 non-CGNAT addressing.

Today, February 3rd, 2022, at my tiny apartment I pay for business-class Fiber through Bell Canada so I enjoy a public IPV4 non-CGNAT single IP, or I can upgrade to a /29, 27, 25 or 24 subnet. And every couple months I receive a
call from a Bell rep, kissing my behind to sell me tech.

We've talked about this before... a certain chicken-little sky-is-falling Dutchman you inexplicably continue to treat his IPV6 stories as undisputed gospel was "wrong" in 2011, was wrong again in 2021 (when his "ten years
from now" prediction was wrong), and is wholeheartedly laughingly wrong today.

Nick

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Hello, Nick!

Thursday February 03 2022 12:40, you wrote to Ward Dossche:

Today, February 3rd, 2022, at my tiny apartment I pay for
business-class Fiber through Bell Canada so I enjoy a public IPV4 non-CGNAT single IP, or I can upgrade to a /29, 27, 25 or 24 subnet.
And every couple months I receive a call from a Bell rep, kissing my behind to sell me tech.

We've talked about this before... a certain chicken-little
sky-is-falling Dutchman you inexplicably continue to treat his IPV6 stories as undisputed gospel was "wrong" in 2011, was wrong again in
2021 (when his "ten years from now" prediction was wrong), and is wholeheartedly laughingly wrong today.

I still cannot get officially static ipv6 subnet assignment for my home connection with 1GB/s GPON link.
And while working for ISP in EU (Luxembourgh) I've got 0 (zero) requests from our clients for ipv6 connections.

Best regards,
dp.
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Dmitry,

And while working for ISP in EU (Luxembourgh) I've got 0 (zero) requests from our clients for ipv6 connections.

That's beside the point. Customers want to be connected, it's of no concern for them whether it's IPv4 or IPv6, I think.

What I merely stated, which started this particular thread, is that per February 3rd 2011 all available blocks of IPv4-addresses had been allocated. That's an undisputable fact. Please read ...

tinyurl.com/IPv4x

It doesn't mean there are no IPv4-addresses available, just that there are no further blocks available anymore for allocation. Companies have large blocks available for themselves, unused addresses are recycled but they can't get more than they already have.

Are we in agreement now?

\%/@rd

--- DB4 - Jan 26 2022
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