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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe're Running Out of Internet
http://gizmodo.com/were-running-out-of-internet-1704241036Its been a long time coming, but were finally going to run out of internet. Back in 2011, we warned that this web reckoning was upon us, and now we have a more substantial timeframe. According to The Wall Street Journal, well be fresh out of IP addresses in the next few months.
Back in the 1980s, the engineers who created the internet and the IPv4 specification made 4.3 billion addresses. Pretty big number, right?...
Considering the deluge of laptops, smartphones, IoT devices, and the millions of IP addresses needed by huge corporations to run their cloud computing platforms (among other things), that 4.3 billion pool of addresses has dwindled to only 3.4 million in North America. Its expected to be all used up by this summer.
So is this officially an internet crisis of biblical proportion, where fire and brimstone is replaced with cat gifs and viral videos? Not so much. Other countries have been out of IPv4 addresses for years, and weve still got the IPv6 specification ace up our sleeve. With IPv6, we will never, ever, ever run out of IP addresses, as the WSJ describes:
Back in the 1980s, the engineers who created the internet and the IPv4 specification made 4.3 billion addresses. Pretty big number, right?...
Considering the deluge of laptops, smartphones, IoT devices, and the millions of IP addresses needed by huge corporations to run their cloud computing platforms (among other things), that 4.3 billion pool of addresses has dwindled to only 3.4 million in North America. Its expected to be all used up by this summer.
So is this officially an internet crisis of biblical proportion, where fire and brimstone is replaced with cat gifs and viral videos? Not so much. Other countries have been out of IPv4 addresses for years, and weve still got the IPv6 specification ace up our sleeve. With IPv6, we will never, ever, ever run out of IP addresses, as the WSJ describes:
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We're Running Out of Internet (Original Post)
KamaAina
May 2015
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lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)1. What no more tubes?
Romeo.lima333
(1,127 posts)2. ipv6 gives us 340 undecillion ips
I see IPv6 IP's all the time on ?Torrent.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)3. South Park again predicts the future
Bosonic
(3,746 posts)5. Upgrade to IPv6 would be required for the Internet of Things anyway
eloydude
(376 posts)6. Everybody panic.
Yeah right. IPv6 standard has been implemented a long time ago and has been in use for the last 2-3 years.