Nikolas Pediaditis, Registration Services and Policy Development Manager at RIPE NCC, said: “With IPv4 exhaustion, we risk heading into a future where the growth of our internet is unnecessarily limited — not by a lack of skilled network engineers, technical equipment, or investment — but by a shortage of unique network identifiers.”
The news is not a total surprise; rather, it has been expected since 2012 when RIPE NCC got its final allocation of IP addresses from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).
However, as the only source of ‘new’ IPv4 addresses in the region, the RIPE NCC said its announcement would increase pressure on network operators and raises concerns over scalable internet growth…More