Renumbering the net - IPv6 is coming

nospam@example.com (Jim) — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:24:55 +1300

The Economist has a good article on IPv6.

The internet: Just as car number plates and telephone dialling codes need to be updated every so often to allow for growth, so does the internet's addressing system. But it should not need updating again any time soon

REMEMBER the panic over the "millennium bug", when computers everywhere were expected to go haywire on January 1st 2000, thanks to the way a lot of old software used just two digits to represent the year instead of four? Doomsters predicted all sorts of errors in calculations involving dates when the clocks rolled over from 99 to 00. In the event, the millennium dawned without incident.

Read more at the Economist

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Renumbering the net - IPv6 is coming