P.S. At this point, the IPv6 transition has failed, unlike the Y2K transition, and some level of crisis is unavoidable. In desperate times, people take desparate measures, and "adopting" IP address ranges that are not used by others in your locality seems a reasonable thing to do when economic survival is at stake.
P.P.S. I saw a report that someone, somewhere, had analysed some data which indicates that IP address allocation rates are increasing and there is a real possibility that we will runout by the end of this year, 2010. Does anyone know where I can find the actual analysis that led to this report?
This is where the claim of runout in December 2010 comes from. <http://news.techworld.com/networking/3227420/last-ipv4-addresses-could-run-out-by-december/> --Michael Dillon