Peak URL

[curiousgeorge]

Oh, my god! it's worse than we thought! The world is running out of URL by 2012! What about all those poor 3rd world people who will have to do without URL! Somebody do something, quick!

www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/07/26/world-run-internet-addresses-year-experts-predict/?test=latestnews

[slh1234]

32 digit IP addresses refer specifically to IPv4. IPv6 is currently in use in the internet - it uses 128 bit addresses. In fact, IPv6 is required for newer technologies like DirectAccess. This one is another Y2K alarm - the fix is already in place, in use, and replacing the limited IPv4 that the article speaks of.


IPv6 article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6

which says this about addresses:

The very large IPv6 address space supports a total of 2128 (about 3.4×10³⁸) addresses—or approximately 5×10²⁸ (roughly 2⁹⁵) addresses for each of the roughly 6.8 billion (6.8×10⁹) people alive in 2010.[13] In another perspective, this is the same number of IP addresses per person as the number of atoms in a metric ton of carbon.

I'd say that there will be enough IP addresses to last us for a while.

Other things I referenced:

DirectAccess: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectAccess

IPv4 (the one that is being deprecated and exhausted): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4

[scpg02]

Just think how many we would have if they did away with porn! Like that would ever happen.

[curiousgeorge]

Y'all did understand the underlying joke, right? ;D

[scpg02]

Oct 9, 2010 13:50:24 GMT curiousgeorge said:

Y'all did understand the underlying joke, right? ;D

Nope. Any reference to peak oil went right over my head.

[slh1234]

I understood it.

Like most of the other alarms I've heard in my life, the IP address article ignored the facts, especially the fact that the fix is already in place and they're worrying about deprecated technology, but we're moving on past it. I just thought that to be a fitting add-on.