[135618] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Jan 27 08:55:32 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D4163ED.1060201@foobar.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:49:19 -0800
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 27, 2011, at 4:24 AM, 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.""
>=20
> Fortunately, web developers have fixed the problem according to Fox =
news:
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> =
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/26/internet-run-ip-addresses-happen=
s-anyones-guess/=20
>=20
> "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."
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Consider the source... Fox -- All the news that's fit to misquote. (or =
something like that).
Those guys never get anything technical or political right.*
> It will be difficult initially, though:
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> "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."
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> I'm glad Fox has cleared all this up for us.
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ROFLMAO
Owen
*In order for Fox to sue me for libel, they first have to prove my =
statement is false.
