> I'm going with no, as a society we can't and/or won't.
But we definitely should. The number of IPv6-only networks is growing by the day.
The next generation of tinkerers and internet engineers will have no IPv4 address space at all, because it makes no sense whatsoever paying $14k (at current prices) for /24 of legacy IP address space.
Unfortunately, the best we can hope for is for giant corporations like Cloudflare, Microsoft and Amazon to buy up most of the IPv4 space.
But we definitely should. The number of IPv6-only networks is growing by the day.
The next generation of tinkerers and internet engineers will have no IPv4 address space at all, because it makes no sense whatsoever paying $14k (at current prices) for /24 of legacy IP address space.
Unfortunately, the best we can hope for is for giant corporations like Cloudflare, Microsoft and Amazon to buy up most of the IPv4 space.