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The Impending IP Crisis
Factomatic writes "With the supply of IP addresses expected to run out by 2005 due to the popularity explosion of the Internet and the expectation that everything from your phone to your washing machine will soon have its own IP address, Alex Lightman, CEO of Charmed Technology and chairman of last month's North American IPv6 Global Summit tells the New York Times "we're going to need something like 100 IP addresses for each human being." IPv6 will increase the supply of addresses from 4 billion today to a number in excess of 35 trillion that is "so big that there's not a word for the number," says Cody Christman, director of product engineering for Verio, which offers IPv6 in San Francisco, Washington and elsewhere. The article is a good layman's backgrounder on the looming IP crisis."
Who needs a new word to describe the number of possible addresses? It's just 1/2.9387358770557187699218413430556e+61st of a google.
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To quote the article "Such sensors could allow people to operate devices from anywhere there is an Internet connection." and "Now that the address space is available, the next step is figuring out how to use it."
I've got an idea, a internet connected toilet. "Using a cellphone in Los Angeles", I could flush the toilet at my home remotely and have the toilet seat drop down automatically (you know, to keep domestic tranquility). I could even call the toilet to see if anyone is using it.
I better go patent it...
Accentuate the positive, don't waste your mod points on the negative.
IPv6 will increase the supply of addresses from 4 billion today to a number in excess of 35 trillion that is "so big that there's not a word for the number,"
how about "thirty six trillion" ?
I wonder how long it will be before we have a washing machine buffer overflow...
Apartment dwellers below the afflicted system should take precautions now....
Rule #1 -- Politics always trumps technology.
The number of IP addresses IP6 will allow is truely astronomical, 6.65x10^23 addresses for every square
Heh. Reminds of a REALLY old joke: For a good time call Avogadro 6.022*10^23!
Ha! I kill me! I'll be here all week.
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The things we think of as futuristic always changes by the time that date gets here. "Where's my flying car?" I asked my grandmother what she thought was "futuristic" when she was a kid. She told me that everything would be attached to those scissors things that extend. She and I didn't know what they were called. Back then, some phones would be attached to the wall with this invention, and it was super high tech for the day. Her idea of futuristic was to have everything in the kitchen on this rig. Coffee maker, spice rack, everything.
Now, had they actually made a kitchen with this device, she would have seen how ridiculous it was.
Just because Bill Gates thought the idea of IP addresses assigned to everyone and everything doesn't mean it was a good idea.
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
Damn short sighted engineers! Who would have thought we'd have more than 4 billion networked devices over 20 years ago!
Pardon me. The ACTUAL number is:
Three hundred forty undecillion two hundred eight-two decillion three hundred sixty-six nonillion nine hundred twenty octillion nine hundred thirty-eight septillion four hundred sixty-three sextillion four hundred sixty-three quintillion three hundred seventy-four quadrillion six hundred seven trillion four hundred thirty-one billion seven hundred sixty-eight million two hundred eleven thousand four hundred fifty-six.
Or just: 340 282 366 920 938 463 463 374 607 431 768 211 456
I could even call the toilet to see if anyone is using it.
MIT got there first: http, finger.
GROGGS: alive and well and living in
I'm gonna subnet like it's 255.255.255.254.
That would be us here at MIT. And you can pry it out of our cold dead hands.
Abuse! Abuse!
I mean, this could go on forever:
Poster1(p1): "The word 'theory', in practice, has more meanings than in theory."
Poster2(p2): "Yes but theory and practice are closer in theory than in practice."
p1: "I don't want to read your theory about practice; practise your theories!"
p2: "Bah! Your theory and practice only hold together in theory, not practice."
p1: "What?! Shove this practice into your theory!"
p2: "Oh yeah, theory this!"
p1: "You short, mustachioed, german, national-socialist pig!"
p2: "Godwin's law! Godwin's law!"
etc, etc, etc.
<yawn>
-Tez
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