New blogs and websites are being launched in millions every month and this may cause the present number of 32 bit binary iP addresses getting running out and we will face the dark alley by the year 2010.
Is there a solution? If so, what we all should do?
Vint Cerf, the Father Of Internet urges users to switch to next generation of net addresses to stay connected. This is no joke dear as the world is on the verge of running out of the web addresses that allow computers to identify and communicate with each other.
The implications are damn serious leading to many computers that can't go online and the connectivity of the Internet might be damaged.
But what we are expected to do? Isn't that the responsibility of Internet Service Providers?
True indeed! Cerf and his colleagues devised the Internet system in 1977, and he set in place “Internet protocol version four” (IPv4) which provided 4.2 billion addresses. Each IPv4 address is a series of 32 binary digits. However, with the boost in the number of Internet-enabled devices, especially mobile phones, less than 14% of those addresses remain vacant.
Before this runs out scientists have already kept aside a new system, called IPv6, which has been ready for implementation for more than a decade. Under IPv6, each address has 128 bits and so provides 340 trillion, trillion, trillion different addresses — that is 340,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000.
Both the protocol systems will run simultaneously and IPv4 addresses will still work as normal. But if the IPv6 is not widely adopted, then those using it may find themselves unable to connect across the whole Internet.
We all should be aware of what is going and we warned to start checking that the products we buy are IPv6 compatible.
Source: Times of India
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