As I mentioned previously, this next few weeks is bound to be full of “It’s the End of The Internet As We Know It” stories and I did have to laugh when this story at FOX News literally began with that text:

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Of course, they confused the “web” with the “Internet” (although to many people they are one and the same), and this phrase certainly made standards friends of mine smile (my emphasis added):

Web developers have compensated for this problem by creating IPv6 — a system which recognizes 128-bit addresses as opposed to IPv4’s 32-bit addresses.

… particularly since the original RFC 1883 for IPv6 came out back in 1995 when the “Web” was still in its very early stages.

The article does, though, hit on the key points that there is very little economic incentive for companies to move to IPv6… and that continues to be a challenge. However, as we continue to look at connecting every possible device to the Internet, the looming depletion of the IPv4 address pool does pose challenges for which IPv6 can certainly be an answer.

But stay tuned… I expect we’ll see even more of these stories in the weeks ahead…

Originally from Voxeo Blogs