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The old IPv4 ip's are running out. (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) According to calculations by IETF in 1994, All possible IPv4 addresses will be in use by the year 2008 +/- 3. IPv6 is the solution to the shortage of the many of the problems relating to IPv4.
IPv6 addresses look very weird... (xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx:xxxxx) i believe is the biggest length possable, and from what i've seen it uses both letters and number. In terms of address space, IPv4 is about 4.3 x 10^9, being 32 bits. On the other hand, Ipv6 becomes the astronomical figure of 3.4 x 10^38 because its length is 128 bits. If the address space of IPv4 is compared to 1 millimeter, the address space of Ipv6 would be 80 times the diameter of the galactic system.
Apparently They've seen this problem coming since the 80's. Work picked up in the 90's. But recently alot of sites, Altavista to name a major one, and alot of programs, including irc, have recently been switching over to irc compatabilty. Maybe its coming sooner then we thought.
What does everyone else think? I'm just afraid that it'll be harder to mess around with when it comes to coding ip specific sites and programs. Also when playing games, ip's will become harder to remember. I think DNS addresses will become more popular, and IP go the way of the dinosaurs, or userwritten Binary Coding.
IPv6 addresses look very weird... (xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx:xxxxx) i believe is the biggest length possable, and from what i've seen it uses both letters and number. In terms of address space, IPv4 is about 4.3 x 10^9, being 32 bits. On the other hand, Ipv6 becomes the astronomical figure of 3.4 x 10^38 because its length is 128 bits. If the address space of IPv4 is compared to 1 millimeter, the address space of Ipv6 would be 80 times the diameter of the galactic system.
Apparently They've seen this problem coming since the 80's. Work picked up in the 90's. But recently alot of sites, Altavista to name a major one, and alot of programs, including irc, have recently been switching over to irc compatabilty. Maybe its coming sooner then we thought.
What does everyone else think? I'm just afraid that it'll be harder to mess around with when it comes to coding ip specific sites and programs. Also when playing games, ip's will become harder to remember. I think DNS addresses will become more popular, and IP go the way of the dinosaurs, or userwritten Binary Coding.