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Vint Cerf Keeps Blaming Himself For IPv4 Limit
netbuzz writes "Everyone knows that IPv4 addresses are nearly gone and the ongoing move to IPv6 is inevitable if not exactly welcomed by all. If you've ever wondered why the IT world finds itself in this situation, Vint Cerf, known far and wide as one of the fathers of the Internet, wants you to know that it's OK to blame him. He certainly does so himself. In fact, he does so time and time and time again."
... to quote that hilarious line from Idiocracy.
In Liberty, Rene
We should have put Gillette in charge of the solution. I'm pretty sure it would have been "fuck everything, we're doing 256-bit". IPv6 won't last long once we start assigning an IP address to everything* such as light bulbs, toasters, etc.
* no, we won't stop to think if we should. We'll only see that we can.
It was pre-home computer revolution and nobody thought computers would shrink to the size of everybody's pockets (cellphones). Nobody thought we'd be using machines will a billion bits (or more) or memory. Back than ~4000 was considered a lot (it was the hardcoded limit for the Atari console). Everything was smaller in scale, and Mr. Cerf is not to blame for not predicting the invention of the Web Browser (killer app) and how it would reach into every facet of our lives.
Only those with no imagination---
I can say with a great deal of confidence that plenty of us knew what was coming.
Now who do we blame for 32-bit time_t on 32-bit iron? There's a relatively new OS that lots of people use today that didn't have any ABI concerns when it was in its infancy, yet its creator didn't have the vision to see beyond doing pretty much what everyone else had done before him. (And I won't name him because then I'll just get modded a troll. But I bet you can guess who it is.)
I think that the IPv6 space is big enough to give an address to every molecule in the solar system.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
... the lesson learned is that whenever you are planning on building something technical, be sure to go wayyyy overboard on the size and scope of the projected requirements in order to future-proof the technology.
Yeah! That's why we should be building CPUs with 1024-bit addresses!
That is all.
Same thing that happened to our razor blades.
Eh, that's a lot of toasters to use up 3.4*10^38 addresses. If a toaster takes up a square metre (big toaster), you'd have to stack them ten billion high over every single metre of the Earth to use them up.
You're new here, aren't you?
Omnifarious (11933)
The five digit UID somewhat disputes your position...
-AC
We all know it wasn't him. Seriously - is there anyone here who doesn't know who algoreithms are named after?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I think that the IPv6 space is big enough to give an address to every molecule in the solar system.
Yeah, but there are a lot of other solar systems. That's why I'm switching to IPV7 with 256-bit addresses.
Of course the cross-galaxy ping time is a bit of a problem.
I don't know about you, but I'm extremely satisfied that my interface's home is in a Class A network.
I mean, who wants to live in a sub-class neighborhood?
That'll give us 3 more spaces we can use! ;-)
The word you want is "whoosh".