Internet Drought coming soon (or why aren’t we using IPv6 yet)
While Global Warming is certainly something to be concerned about, with icecaps on Greenland melting and all that, it’s probably a little known fact that the Internet is heading for its own meltdown of sorts. If you don’t believe me, take a look at this… http://www.tndh.net/~tony/ietf/IPv4%20Address%20Fractal%20Map.pdf From what we are led to believe, the availablility of IPv4 internet addresses is rapidly drying up. Latest predictions show that sometime around 2010, there aren’t going to be any more IPv4 addresses – well, certainly not as freely available as they currently are.
Just as an aside… I’ve been aware that things might break in the past 10 years or so when I built IPv6 into Trumpet Winsock 5.0. My latest TCP stack for DOS (nothing to do with Trumpet) also has IPv6 and as far as I’m aware, it’s one of the few IPv6 DOS TCP implementations around. Ok, ok. it doesn’t do full IPsec and so forth (remember it’s only 640K in DOS), but it has the basic connectivity required to get going. Anyone who wants to try out a beta, let me know…
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