Internet running out of IP addresses

There are reports that the pool of Internet addresses has been officially depleted.

http://isoc.org/wp/newsletter/?p=3139

See excerpt below:

"The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has just announced the long-expected final allocation of IPv4 addresses to the Regional Internet Registries. This begins the final chapter in the history of IPv4, as each of the five regions of the world have now received their final blocks of addresses to distribute for use in new network developments.

The regions will each run out of IPv4 addresses at different times, at which point the only new IP addresses available for Internet growth will be IPv6. "