[antientropic]

> but it keeps not happening

The article you're responding to is a dramatic demonstration that it has happened: Amazon's IPs would not be worth $4.5B if we hadn't run out. It requires us all to ration a resource (namely numbers) that should be near-infinite and essentially free.

[mschuster91]

> It requires us all to ration a resource (namely numbers) that should be near-infinite and essentially free.

There can only be ~4.3 billion IPv4 addresses, which means that mathematically IP addresses are severely limited - you can't assign even one single globally routable IPv4 address per human. That's why we have NAT and its evolution CGNAT in the first place.

[circuit10]

That’s their point, if there were more addresses we wouldn’t need to