IPv4 Addresses to be Exhausted Next Week

  
Just in time for Procera's recent new release (see "Procera Adds IPv6 Support" - here), Hurricane Electric  predicts that the "Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) will allocate its final block of IPv4 addresses sometime next week"

See "Hurricane Electric Predicts Exhaustion of IPv4 Address Space will Occur Next Week" - here.

I am not sure if this is the end of Internet as we know it, but maybe it is time to pay more attention to IPv6 - after years it was defined as "a mandatory requirement for next (always next) year" 

“In order to avoid costly capital expenditures down the road and possible failure on their business continuity plans, companies must make the migration to IPv6 sooner rather than later,” said Martin Levy, Hurricane Electric’s Director of IPv6 Strategy. “Companies that fail to migrate to IPv6 will face a number of painful options, including buying expensive equipment to cobble together an address-sharing scheme or going out to the marketplace to acquire IP address space at a potentially exorbitant price.”