Quoting from this article:
https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2016/09/final-report-on-tcpip-migration-in-1983/
"" The immediate impact of TCP/IP adoption was a huge increase in the available address space, as 32 bits allows for approximately 4 billion hosts. Unfortunately, this address space was not allocated efficiently ""
The world ran out of IPv4 addresses, formally Q1, 2011 and apparently IPv6 adoption didn't go as expected?
Isn't it the right time to change the IP system (IPv4 and IPv6) altogether?
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What about the IPv6 as an alternative system of addresses for the Internet?
Assuming around 7 billion devices connected (1 for each person alive today); It had been anticipated for many years that the system of address allocation would be unable to keep up with predicted future demand.
It had been anticipated for many years that the IPv4 system of address allocation (32 bits) would be unable to keep up with predicted future demand and so IPv6 (128 bits) was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force, IETF in 1998 to counter the problem.
The eventual jump to 128 bits (ratified as an internet standard in 2017) created an intergalactic potential of unique addresses to rely on, but like many other aspects of life; the IPv6 got shelved for 15 years and while everyone was improving IPv4, nobody ported those improvements to IPv6, until the Internet community woke up and realized it was the right time to start dusting the arcane protocol that barely anyone touched for many years.
The above figure clearly shows that the adoption of IPv6 is slowing and maybe tailing off.
Assuming around 7 billion devices connected (1 for each person alive today); It had been anticipated for many years that the system of address allocation would be unable to keep up with predicted future demand.
It had been anticipated for many years that the IPv4 system of address allocation (32 bits) would be unable to keep up with predicted future demand and so IPv6 (128 bits) was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force, IETF in 1998 to counter the problem.
The eventual jump to 128 bits (ratified as an internet standard in 2017) created an intergalactic potential of unique addresses to rely on, but like many other aspects of life; the IPv6 got shelved for 15 years and while everyone was improving IPv4, nobody ported those improvements to IPv6, until the Internet community woke up and realized it was the right time to start dusting the arcane protocol that barely anyone touched for many years.
The above figure clearly shows that the adoption of IPv6 is slowing and maybe tailing off.
Decentralization at the infrastructure level adds further robustness to the distributed services contributing to Web 3.0
The Internet which has radically altered society as we know it on Planet Earth in little over a generation may be one of the best things since sliced bread but it's actually just a whole load of computers wired together with clever routing and as such, it relies on a system for allocating addresses (IP addresses) so that all connected devices can communicate with each other.
Assuming around 7 billion devices connected (1 for each person alive today); It had been anticipated for many years that the system of address allocation would be unable to keep up with predicted future demand.
With only 5 address allocators (RIRs or regional registries per continental territory), it means a highly centralized system with lots of single points of failure that is often slow to respond adequately to change through a lack of flexibility, innovation and competition.
All allocated addresses require renewal fees to be paid repeatedly and with the advent of the Internet of Things, IoT meaning a whole new generation of everyday electrical appliances requiring their own multiple internet addresses, and the roll out of ultra-high bandwidth 5G networks, address stack renewal fees will begin to stack up ever higher as ever more addresses will be required over the long term.
Assuming around 7 billion devices connected (1 for each person alive today); It had been anticipated for many years that the system of address allocation would be unable to keep up with predicted future demand.
With only 5 address allocators (RIRs or regional registries per continental territory), it means a highly centralized system with lots of single points of failure that is often slow to respond adequately to change through a lack of flexibility, innovation and competition.
All allocated addresses require renewal fees to be paid repeatedly and with the advent of the Internet of Things, IoT meaning a whole new generation of everyday electrical appliances requiring their own multiple internet addresses, and the roll out of ultra-high bandwidth 5G networks, address stack renewal fees will begin to stack up ever higher as ever more addresses will be required over the long term.
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