Addressing the Problem of Addresses

Address-567

Futurist Thomas Frey:  When Hurricane Katrina hit the city of New Orleans the US Post Office was faced with a major dilemma. For countless centuries, the modus operandi for the post office was to deliver mail to a location, and the individuals who lived at that location would stop by and pick up their mail. But following the hurricane, the floods had destroyed all of the “locations”.

 

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Switching to IPv6 Near as the World Runs Out of IP Addresses

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Internet Protocol version 6

Who could have guessed that 4.3 billion Internet connections wouldn’t be enough?  Certainly not Vint Cerf.

In 1976, Mr. Cerf and his colleagues in the R.& D. office of the Defense Department had to make a judgment call: how much network address space should they allocate to an experiment connecting computers in an advanced data network?

 

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