Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses

[drais at icantclick.org (david raistrick)]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Jay Ashworth wrote:

> Fox didn't screw up, for a change, and Vint's quote appears in many
> other news sources.  Apparently, I'm the only one on Nanog who knows
> about this new thing called The Google.  :-)

Fox (in the linked article) didn't quote Vint.


They said useful things like this:

source:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/26/internet-run-ip-addresses-happens-anyones-guess/

"It's the end of the web as we know it."

And this is -not- what the article said before:
"Web developers have compensated for this problem by creating IPv6 -- a 
system which recognizes 128-bit addresses as opposed to IPv4's 32-bit 
addresses."

Originally (an hour ago) it read something like
"Web developers have compensated for this problem by creating IPv6 -- a 
system which uses 6 digit addresses instead of 4 digit 
addresses"


"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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