Jonathan Richards of The Times of London has this great piece on IPv6, a new Internet protocol developed to make more room for new IP addresses. It seems that that IPv4, which allowed for four billion IP addresses, is already running out of room.
“Currently there’s four billion addresses available and there are six billion humans on Earth, so there’s obviously an issue there,” said David Kessens, chairman of the IPv6 working group at RIPE, one of five regional internet registries in charge of rolling it out.
What’s very cool about Richards’ article is that it contains a very large number, not one ordinarily seen in news articles: 340,282,366,920,938,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. That’s the number of spaces made available in IPv6, which is based on 32-bit numbers rather than the 16-bit digits in IPv4.
Cynthia Brumfield at 12:49 PM|Comments(0)
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