here's the original quote (which a friend had pasted to me): "Web developers have tried to compensate for this problem by creating IPv6 -- a system that recognizes six-digit IP addresses rather than four-digit ones." On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, david raistrick wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Jay Ashworth wrote:
Fox didn't screw up, for a change, and Vint's quote appears in many other news sources. Apparently, I'm the only one on Nanog who knows about this new thing called The Google. :-)
Fox (in the linked article) didn't quote Vint.
They said useful things like this:
source: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/26/internet-run-ip-addresses-happens-...
"It's the end of the web as we know it."
And this is -not- what the article said before: "Web developers have compensated for this problem by creating IPv6 -- a system which recognizes 128-bit addresses as opposed to IPv4's 32-bit addresses."
Originally (an hour ago) it read something like "Web developers have compensated for this problem by creating IPv6 -- a system which uses 6 digit addresses instead of 4 digit addresses"
"But IPv6 isn't backwards-compatible with IPv4, meaning that it's not able to read most content that operates on an IPv4 system. At best, the user experience will be clunky and slow. At worst, instead of a webpage, all users will be able to view is a blank page."
-- david raistrick http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html drais@icantclick.org http://www.expita.com/nomime.html
-- david raistrick http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html drais@icantclick.org http://www.expita.com/nomime.html