[135612] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Thu Jan 27 07:51:04 2011
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:50:24 +0200
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: <4D4163ED.1060201@foobar.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
At 12:24 27/01/2011 +0000, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>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.
I guess they are hiring TSA rejects. No other way to explain the cluelessness
:-)
-Hank
>Nick
