[ppml] "Who's afraid of IPv4 address depletion? Apparently no one."

To throw a little accelerant on the fire....

http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-10feb08.htm

"ICANN Recovers Large Block of Internet Address Space

16 million unused IPv4 address now available for use on the Internet

10 February 2008

MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names  
and Numbers has found a little breathing room in the IPv4 address  
space with its recovery of a block of 16 million IPv4 addresses.

The IP addresses recovered were once used to connect older protocol  
packet-data networks with the fledgling Internet. The block of  
addresses, technically referred to as 14.0.0.0/8, is also known as  
Net-14. " ...

Perhaps we'll begin to see a little more of this.