The internet is going IP short. prediction and solution

The Internet is soon going to run short of IP addresses.

What is this prediction based on?
What suggestion can you have to keep the Internet IP ready all through? Jp

There is widespread apprehension on whether the global Internet service providers would be in a position to offer enough IP addresses for all in the days to come? There are concerns. Let me see the rationale behind the prediction on an IP-short cyberspace, and make a few ways to make it future-ready.

The first thing is there is huge surge in the Net users’ numbers, and the technologies find it hard to catch up with the demand-supply equation. For example, the internet in its tender years must have looked so powerful and futuristic. But, now there is greater number of IP addresses than there are people around the world. The second thing is the rising number of people who hold several IP addresses for multiple devices like handsets, virtual headsets and Smart-Watches; all call for separate IPs. It will be a tough job.

Keeping the Net IP-prepared all the time is not impossible anyway. The world must go for Unique ID numbers for all the subscribers so that all the IP addresses one may come to have could be read first based on his or her UID. Then other grounds like what one IP address is used for, which one is dormant for how long and how many stand abandoned etc. can be monitored. Naturally, the service providers can take back the  dormant and/or abandoned addresses for meeting fresh demands; something like some cell phone companies do with abandoned  numbers. These are my suggestions.

In short, any supplier may find regular supply a little difficult when the product goes up in its popularity graph every passing day. This is what is likely to happen with the internet as well. Any, the recommendations I have made may be of some help for any such supplier, I believe.

290 words. Jaypeesdoc. 5.7.15