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inflection point will arrive in appx. 12-18 months, when the last remaining reserves of unallocated IPv4 addresses will be depleted. To date, these protocol number resources have served as the fundamental logical "glue" holding the Internet together, and enabling the 35k or so independently administered Internet networks to seamlessly interact and exchange traffic with one another. Unfortunately, The designated successor address resource, called IPv6, is not backward compatible with the IPv4 addressing standard, which means that future aspiring network operators that only have access to IPv6 will be perpetually isolated and unreachable from the rest of the Internet -- unless they can somehow secure access to IPv4 themselves