No More Space on The Internet

[applegetsmelaid]

340 Sextillion - Damn.

 

[everygamer]

Its not as urgent as they make it, most likely the Tier-1 backbone providers will update their core architecture to IPv6 and continue to use IPv4 as needed at a local scale. You can contain IPv4 in IPv6 and then just add to it. So where infrastructure needs to be upgraded they keep pushing the IPv4 and then start using IPv6 where the infrastructure supports it.

 

[techguy378]

IPv6 should replaced IPv4 100% a very, very long time ago. Why are there so many lazy people in the tech industry?

 

[maestintaolius]

http://www.1112.net/lastpage.html

 

[caeden]

And thus the internet becomes as convoluted as some local phone systems that still have party lines or do not work with touch-tone phones! (yes, sadly there are still places like this)

Actually it shouldn't be bad, they can just subnet mask the entire internet under one ipv6 address and leave it as is, while all new devices will go by the new standard, so no worries! Besides, this just means that the last of the A/B blocks have been allocated to gov'ts and corps, they have yet to be assigned to end-users, that will take another year or 2 at least. And as someone else mentioned there are entire A blocks assigned to Gov'ts that are still untouched. Think of it like video game sales, they track how many games have been sold to stores, not how many have been sold to individuals. Work in retail long enough and you know there is a big difference between the two.

On the other hand, it is kinda neat having a single dedicated IP address for every device that you own! Soon internet providers will be able to bill you for each computer, laptop, PDA, cellphone, blue ray player, game console, etc separately! Imagine $30-40 for internet access per device! Sure it will never happen, but don't think that Comcast and Time Warner aren't thinking about it!

 

[Mottamort]

@ roxim5

I believe he has every right to bash the American's on this kind of topic, seeing as they were the ones pushing the universal standard (metre, litre) and blatantly refuse to use it.

 

[virochana]

It is very important for websites that require a unique ip address, that is in turn required for a cert needed to use https transactions. Very small websites requireing this can use a shared cert, but it would be rediqulous for a site that does more than a few thousands dollars a month to use a shared cert. Because the code running in the shared cert is sharing a common pool, it makes the site much more liable to crash if some other site crashed in the pool.

So it is important for ecommerce. For other sites it makes little difference, because these cn use headers within the server to route to where it needs to go.

There is most likely a circulation of IP addresses, so it is not that you cannot obtain a unique IP4 address, jsut that it will be harder and harder as time progresses.

 

[tsz42]

When I give my IP address out so people can connect to my server I will now have to give out that really long IPv6 address?

Yes and no, there are ways to shorten the IPv6 address, but its still a pain to work with

 

[mayankleoboy1]

R.I.P IPv4

 

[shin0bi272]

[citation][nom]caeden[/nom]On the other hand, it is kinda neat having a single dedicated IP address for every device that you own! Soon internet providers will be able to bill you for each computer, laptop, PDA, cellphone, blue ray player, game console, etc separately! Imagine $30-40 for internet access per device! Sure it will never happen, but don't think that Comcast and Time Warner aren't thinking about it![/citation]

with twc kicking around the idea of a 40gb/mo bandwidth cap a couple of years ago it wouldnt surprise me at all.