No more Web Adresses?
The world may come to face an unexpected issue: running out of web addresses in less than 2 years, the World Wide Web creators announced, quoted by DailyMail.
“ Internet addresses allow the computers to identify one another, and thus, to communicate. As long as no device is brought into service in order to increase the number of IP addresses, the amount of these addresses may run low in two years tops.” Claims Vint Cerf, the vice president of Google.
In 1977, the year the internet was created, 4,2 billion IP addresses were released on the market. At present, only 14% of them are left available.
“ Imagine that the telephone numbers would run low.” Without a new series of numbers it would be impossible to register new users”, Vint Cerf mentions.
Source: DailyMail
The researchers announce that they are already operating on a system called IPv6, which shall be accomplished in about ten years and will be able to offer 340 trillion trillion trillion web addresses.
I saw the same thing happen with ESN’s on American CDMA Wireless networks. A conversion to a longer address would have to take place and patches would have to be put into place, on every pc…
kinda sounds like a y2k part 2!