[135610] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Thu Jan 27 07:26:25 2011
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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:24:13 +0000
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
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On 27/01/2011 11:21, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> "I thought it was an experiment and I thought that 4.3 billion IPv4
> addresses would be enough to do an experiment," Cerf was quoted as saying,
> adding it is his "fault" that "we were running out of the addresses.""
Fortunately, web developers have fixed the problem according to Fox news:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/26/internet-run-ip-addresses-happens-anyones-guess/
"Web developers have tried to compensate for this problem by creating IPv6
-- a system that recognizes six-digit IP addresses rather than four-digit
ones."
It will be difficult initially, though:
"But IPv6 isn't backwards-compatible with IPv4, meaning that it's not able
to read most content that operates on an IPv4 system. At best, the user
experience will be clunky and slow. At worst, instead of a webpage, all
users will be able to view is a blank page."
I'm glad Fox has cleared all this up for us.
Nick
