Let us not go off the deep end. Yet!
IMO this is part of the UN plan to control the Internet that surfaced about 2 years ago.
The UN wanted to move all of the assignment of addresses to them so as to better utilize the addresses.
Problem is that no matter what you call the net it is still just a group of computers that have been interwired.
While this site is called WWW.AWRM.ORG that is unknown to the computers. This is 209.194.116.139 to the network.
Thus there are (000-999)-(000-999)-(000.999)-(000-999)= 996,005,996,001 available addresses for the entire world to use. To add a deciminal to each of these would require a complete replacement of millions of servers, encryption devices, and operating systems at a time when the world is in financial ruin.
In the past two years you have seen millions of people in what used to be third world countries and non-technical industries jumping on the Internet.
When the US told the UN to drop dead the battle began. I suspect that they have reached a compromise for allocating those resources. Possibly by limiting the out of country access by only allowing that service through a paid port provider.
In either case it would be a good time for "Associated groups" to begin to set up dial in access ports for strategic emails and VPN access.