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How Things Will Change Under IPv6
Da Massive writes "IPv6 Forum leader Latif Ladid provides an insight into the workings of IPv6. He also talks about how peer-to-peer file serving as we know it today will be redundant with the newer protocol." From the article: "Q: What is the most significant benefit that IPv6 offers the world? A: Global connectivity. Currently we have less than 50 percent world-wide Internet penetration, and we have used most of the address space. If you look at the Western world, we have more than 50 percent penetration. In total we have close to a billion people connected to the Internet. So it is a false perception that we have full Internet penetration. We have six billion people on the planet. When the Internet protocol was designed back in 1980 there were 4.3 billion address spaces; it was already insufficient for the population. By 2050 we will be nearly 10 billion people. But there are not only people. There are things. Billions and billions of devices that will service these people."
I call it The Thingternet!
"There are things. Billions and billions of devices that will service these people"
I for one welcome our new.... thingy overlords...
So it is a false perception that we have full Internet penetration.
This is completely untrue! There is lots of full penetration on the internet.
Like this : here
OTH, there is a fair point that it's not about people, it's about devices..
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The closer we actually get to REALLY running out of IPV4 numbers - the more IPV6 will become adopted
This is known as "Market Forces" - this is a foreign concept to many but it is the reality of this situation.
When NAT becomes insuffiecient to handle the demand - IPV6 will be ready to roll. Then every man, woman, child, insect and grain of sand will have its own PUBLIC address which we can then begin to exploit - YAY!
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Oh, you know what they're talking about. Billions and billions of devices to "service" you. Ever increasing "penetration." What, you think this guy is wrong aobut the future of the internet? ;)
In other news, a door in germany refuses to open because some script kiddie got it's IP address and crashed the door. Officials are trying their best to open the door but they suspect the door has to be rebooted.
Are this going to be the news from the future?
When I read "But there are not only people. There are things. Billions and billions of devices that will service these people." I immediately invisioned billions of internet enabled sex toys.
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but when some kiddie wants your IP to hack into your system you'll have to give him something other than "127.x.y.z". You'll have to make up a much longer number.
As noted by the recent spate of cellphone-targeting malware....if you don't have the latest coffeepot firewall, someone could make you wake up to decaf! The horrrrror!
Under IPv6 the internet will surf you.
Which thanks to recent health studies, can now be prosecuted as Attempted Murder.
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With "people address", there are three problems. First, no way to generalize routing rules. Secondly, there is the fact that all your stuff might not be in the same place. Most of it is at your house, but some of it is at the vacation home. Finally, there is the problem that people, unlike IP4 address, tend to move arround alot, geographically speaking. Usually, if you move from New York to LA, you get a different IP, even if you use the same national ISP. Under your scheme, the whole internet would have to be told to redirect your trafic. Yick.
You've missed the tin foil hat consipary theory. Assigning an IP address to all newly minted currency along with some RFID and GPS. Instantly, the MAN and your neighbor could ping all your money! The IRS would know exactly how much cash that you have stuffed under your bed!
Please tell me for the 34253456345324th time... Why? (link is fine, I like to read.)
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