Posted 09/28/08 at 07:32:58 AM by Pulkit Chandna

Internet’s father Vint Cerf is a little concerned about his beloved child. He has warned that we will soon expend the 4.2 billion IP addresses available under the IPv4 system currently in use. As per his prediction, there might not be any fresh IP addresses left by 2010.

He fears that this will considerably hamper the connectivity of the internet. He has suggested that internet be urgently switched to a new system. That new system is already in use in Japan for linking thousands of earthquake sensors and has been around for almost a decade. The IPv6 as it is called can provide an inexhaustible 340 trillion, trillion, trillion addresses.

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