Why the Internet Will Have Plenty of Space by www.batteryfast.co.uk

March 2, 2011 - PRLog -- The Internet, as we currently know it, has run out of room. The roughly 4 billion destinations—a zoo of porn and retail, gambling, Justin Bieber, and conspiracy fantasists—have now fully colonized the Web. The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Net's governing body, reported on Feb. 3 that it had distributed the last of its addresses. But don't worry—this won't cause calamity for the average person or business.

Plenty of people have long known that the Internet would eventually run out of room. When it was launched decades back, the Internet was still an "experiment" to computer scientists. They provided enough room for only about 4 billion addresses. That might sound ample, but in today's hyperconnected world, especially with the soaring use of connected mobile devices (all requiring their own IP addresses), it is simply inadequate.

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To fix this situation, the Internet is about to undergo a major transition—one of the biggest changes ever to hit the Net—as it evolves from the current version, known as Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4), to the futuristic IPv6. In a nutshell, this means that the Internet Protocol—the backbone of the Internet, the computer-to-computer language system that enables the Internet to exist—will migrate from the current 32-bit addresses to 128 bits, allowing for 11 "undecillion" new IP addresses. How many is that? Well, to put it in perspective, there will now be enough addresses for every person who's ever lived each to have 1 trillion IP addresses. In other words, it's a lot of addresses—and plenty more space for the Web to expand.

The upgrade to IPv6 will present some challenges, but expect it to be more easily managed than some recent logistical conundrums, such as Y2K. It should not be seen as a "crisis," "IPocalypse," or serious problem for anyone.
Get Ready for June 8

ICANN has been urging Internet service providers to begin the transition to IPv6 for years, but only recently have companies taken the request seriously. The upgrade to IPv6 is just now beginning and could take until 2021 before the entire transition is completed. The Internet Society has scheduled a World IPv6 Day for June 8, 2011, when such major companies as Google (GOOG), Facebook, Yahoo (YHOO), and Verizon Communications (VZ) will start IPv6 trials. As for financial cost, the upgrade to IPv6 should be relatively painless. The cost of any new equipment, servers, hosting plans, networking devices, etc. will be defrayed over the period it takes for IPv6 to become the most supported protocol.

Is IPv6 secure? Technically, IPv6 is probably less secure than its predecessor, IPv4. The reason: IPv4 has been around for 30 years, so its strengths and weaknesses are fairly well known. IPv6 is still, in many respects, an unknown quantity in terms of security. We do not yet have enough data on it to know where all the weak points are. Unfortunately, Internet security is a process of trial and error and the verdict is still out on IPv6.

IPv6 is coded, however, to require support for various security measures that were completely optional with IPv4. It automatically works with IP Security protocols or IPSec. This will allow for authentication and/or encryption of data packets at the IP level—meaning you can secure your data at every step of their movement through the Internet.

If all goes well, this historic transformation will be completely and utterly invisible to the average person and business. Of course, some accommodation will be required. In a few years, as the Internet has more fully shifted to IPv6, consumers will need to replace their Wi-Fi routers and older operating systems, such as Windows 98. These will experience operational troubles with the new Net. The day to watch is June 8, when several major Internet players will initiate full-fledged IPv6 trials. Should any unusual problems occur at that time—slowdowns or security failures—we'll know the transition may not proceed trouble-free. But it is highly unlikely that such problems will occur at any significant level. Like Y2K, the transition from present to future should occur with most of us Web surfers none the wiser.

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