Web Could Run Out of Addresses By 2010, Warn Internet Experts

Telegraph:

A survey, conducted by the European Commission, found that few companies are prepared for the switch from the current naming protocol, IPv4, to the new regime, IPv6. Web experts have warned that we could run out of internet addresses within the next two years unless more companies migrate to the new platform.

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Comments

[RedDogBear]

Another example of a sensational headline. It sounds as if there is some imminent disaster looming in the next two years but when you read the article all they are saying is that people need to start converting over to a new standard, that already exists and is supported, and once they do there will be enough Internet addresses for "every blade of grass on the planet", not exactly a pending crisis.

[force fed up]

Again? Wasn't this an issue 5 years ago?

[mflorian]

And how many of the websites on now have died and were replaced with those pointless advertisement sites? Couldn't we eliminate all those?

[StarDagger]

Easy solution, get rid of all the conservative blogs and the moronic corporate web sites.

[brady61995]

what the hells in that glass?

[amdezurik]

spilled milk?

[filo]

Oh NO!!

It's Y2K all over again !

Head or the hills !

[pixelslinger]

Head or the hills? I choose head!

[jdunaway65]

ROFLMAO!

[filo]

LOL!

Darn sticky "f" key. @*%# !!!

[amdezurik]

yes? a lot of work went into preventing any problems on Y2K so of course to the non-thinkers that means it was all just a joke.

[filo]

Lighten up. Y2K made me a lot of money. I'm a network tech so I DO know. I was just injecting a little levity because SOME people around here have no sense of humor.

[RedDogBear]

Right on. It actually was an issue and as you said a lot of hard work went into re-working a lot of software so that there were no major problems.

But I also blame all the self proclaimed experts who in reality knew nothing about IT but suddenly were on the 24 hour news shows proclaiming the disaster looming ahead. One example was Helen Caldicott an anti-nuclear activist (something I'm mostly sympathetic to) from Australia who said ridiculous things about how the "clocks" on all the chips in the embedded devices in nuclear power plants would fail, as if the point of a cpu "clock" was to tell the date and time rather than to synchronize the instructions.