IPv6, IPv4 Address Exhaustion and Machine-to-Machine Internet

Internet address registrars will announce soon that that last set of internet addresses has been allocated, today, tomorrow or the next day. That means device addresses will be exhausted in a few months. Then begins the process of living with two address systems for some extended period of time, as new devices get assigned IPv6 addresses.

Whether this is a manageable problem, or something bigger, remains to be seen.

Without internet addresses, we won’t have an “internet of things”