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rhody
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Ought oh... IPV6 may be in your near future
BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11736394"
Rhody... :uhh:
P.S. Just in time to create a whole new growth industry to help address rising global unemployment, which would be a good thing.
BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11736394"
andThe internet could face years of instability as it moves to a new addressing system, one of the network's original architects has warned. Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the internet, spoke as the UK was urged to begin using the new addressing system. With current addresses due to run out in 2012, nations and businesses must get on with switching, said Mr Cerf. During the switch internet links could become unreliable, making sites and services hard to reach, Mr Cerf said. "This has to happen or the internet will stop growing or will not be growable," he said of the move to the addressing system. The net has grown to its current size using version 4 of its addressing scheme (IPv4), which allows for about 4.3 billion addresses. Estimates suggest that this pool of addresses will be exhausted by the end of January 2012.
And who would have thought that your Domain Name tied to your IP address would be so valuable. I wonder what "Go Daddy's" business plans will be when this begins to happen. Will it devolve into: for available recyclable IP's, auction to the highest bidder until the instability issues are solved once and for all. Just speculation on this humble observer's part.The net would not stop during the switch, said Mr Cerf, but access could get "spotty". That instability could last years, he suggested, as even search giant Google - his current employer - took three years to get its IPv6 network up and running. "There's work to be done," he said. "It's not massive work but it is meticulous work." Clock, BBC Time is running out for firms to get using the replacement addressing scheme Mr Cerf was the keynote speaker at a launch event for 6UK, a non-profit group set up to get UK businesses converting to the new addressing scheme. Currently only about 1% of data sent over the internet is wrapped in IPv6 packets, said Mr Cerf, adding that moving to using the bigger address space should now be a global priority. Some nations, such as China and the Czech Republic, had made great strides in using IPv6 but others had not even started. "There is turbulence coming," said Nigel Titley, chairman of RIPE, the body that hands out Europe's allocation of IPv4 addresses. He said it was only a matter of time before the shortfall of addresses started to hit business. Attempts to get more people online, close digital divisions or to boost e-commerce could all be hampered by a lack of addresses, Mr Titley sa
Rhody... :uhh:
P.S. Just in time to create a whole new growth industry to help address rising global unemployment, which would be a good thing.
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