Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Thu 30th Apr 2009 23:53 UTC
According to research that's supposed to be published later this year, growing demand for Internet use will soon outstrip the stamina of the infrastructure supporting it, and the Internet will cease to be reliable by 2012. Complete anarchy will ensue, and the world will essentially end along with the Internet we created for it. Perhaps this is what the Mayan prophecies meant?
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RE: so may be it's a good thing to keep ipv4 after all ...
by sbenitezb on Fri 1st May 2009 03:40
in reply to "so may be it's a good thing to keep ipv4 after all ..."
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(and, btw, no one is actually converting to ipv6, no business case, the cost of conversion including training is prohibitively high).
Most ISPs are already ipv6 ready (or sort of) and have tested the backbones. It's a matter of being inside the internet or outside of it when the time comes to make the switch (already schedulled).
as to simple increase of the traffic volume - well, I don't think that's really an issue.
It may or it may not be an issue in the future. Too many variables. The well known spam problem is increasing and as more people connects to the net, more computers are available for bots to take them. Perhaps as the world moves to newer (supposedly safer) versions of Windows the ammount of spam diminishes and compensates for the ammount of garbage people download from youtube and the likes.
so let's keep ipv4. OK?
IPv4 is not going anywhere.
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2006-01-03
this surely prevents the explosive grows of address space on a backbone, the growth at the edges is hidden by the private addressing scheme, so at least *that* should not be a factor (and, btw, no one is actually converting to ipv6, no business case, the cost of conversion including training is prohibitively high). as to simple increase of the traffic volume - well, I don't think that's really an issue.
so let's keep ipv4. OK?