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When i read the title, I first thought to myself that those 2 billion dollars will be pretty much worthless once everyone uses ipv6. But as soon as more ipv6 adresses are used (or CG-NAT), ipv4 adresses will become cheaper, so there seems to be a natural balance which will keep the state of "There are IPv4 adresses left" and "IPv4 adresses will run out sometime soon"

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For a while, but eventually we will hit a tipping point where nobody cares about IPv4 anymore.

Well, at some point the governments will actually start doing their jobs and ban IPv4 compatible hardware for sale, just like they did for obsolete analog/digital TV tuners and incandescent light bulbs.

What are you talking about?

IPv4-compatible equipment is bad because it slows down the transition from IPv4 (aka ARPANET) to IPv6 (aka Internet). Since the free market seems to have trouble to find incentives to do it itself, the governments should force it, in the same way that they forced the transitions from obsolete TV tuners and incandescent light bulbs.

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