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IPv6 Adoption Up 300 Percent Over 2 Years

Posted by timothy on from the final-curve-will-be-interesting dept.

Mark.J - ISPreview writes "The Number Resource Organization, which is made up of the five Regional Internet Registries, has revealed that the rate of new entrants into the IPv6 routing system has increased by 300% over the past two years. The news is important because IPv4 addresses (e.g. 123.23.56.98), which are assigned to your computer periodically, are running out. IPv6 addressing (e.g. 2ffe:1800:3525:3:200:f8ff:fe21:67cf) was invented as a longer and more secure replacement." IPv6 is still gaining ground slowly, particularly in the US.

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  1. up 300%? by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Funny

    you mean it went from 1 person to 3 people?

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    1. Re:up 300%? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, up by 300% would means there are now 4 users.

      </pedant>

    2. Re:up 300%? by Smuttley · · Score: 5, Funny

      wow. I mean, like.. wow

      Where the heck do you guys get 4 from?

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    3. Re:up 300%? by BigJClark · · Score: 3, Funny


      Son of a.... *hangs head, hands over geek card*

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    4. Re:up 300%? by philfr · · Score: 3, Funny

      If something increases by 100%, that means it doubles, not stays the same. Induction can take it from here.

      So going up 300% means doubling 3 times ?

  2. Re:Fun with statistics by Hatta · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why is that lying?

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  3. Obviously technologically superior by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 4, Funny

    The news is important because IPv4 addresses (e.g. 123.23.56.98), which are assigned to your computer periodically, are running out. IPv6 addressing (e.g. 2ffe:1800:3525:3:200:f8ff:fe21:67cf) was invented as a longer and more secure replacement.

    Look! IPv4 addresses just have numbers and dots. IPv6 addresses have numbers AND letters . . . and colons (TWO stacked dots)!

    No question, which one is better, and tastes better, and lasts longer, and is less filling.

    I'd like the IPv6 prefix dead:beef, please and thank, you.

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  4. Re:wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    In other news, every milk drinker in the past 5 centuries have died and Franco is still dead!

  5. Re:IPV4 addresses are NOT running out by TheLink · · Score: 4, Funny

    Incompatibility with bittorrent is often regarded as a feature by corporations.

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  6. no, your numbers are wrong by circletimessquare · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. start with 1 throwaway silly joke

    1

    2. multiply that by the Humorlessness constant

    1 * H

    3. add 300% overhead cost of a mediocre informative rating

    1 * H * 300%

    4. factor by the coefficient of who gives a shit

    F(1 * H * 300%)W

    and you are left with 3 users of IPv6

    so there

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    1. Re:no, your numbers are wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      3. add 300% overhead cost of a mediocre informative rating

      1 * H * 300%

      1 * H + (300% * 1)

      There, fixed that formula for ya.

  7. Technically, IPv6 is running out as well by geekoid · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's just there a lot more to go until the end~

    Hey, I did say technically.

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  8. Re:IPV4 addresses are NOT running out by Harry+Coin · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's not even getting into all the millions of unused IP's being held by the early internet companies.

    True, but consider that IPv6 would prevent anything like that from happening again.

    Actually, if IPv6 is adopted, we'll see companies (even individuals!) sitting on ~5x10^28 unused IP addresses! Greedy bastards.

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  9. Out cruising the IPv6 space one day... by geekmux · · Score: 2, Funny
    (Cruising around IPv6 land, checking out nodes...)

    "Woah, a Duke Nukem Forever server? No way. How long has this been sitting here?!?"