On Jan 27, 2011, at 4:24 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote: > On 27/01/2011 11:21, Hank Nussbacher wrote: >> "I thought it was an experiment and I thought that 4.3 billion IPv4 >> addresses would be enough to do an experiment," Cerf was quoted as saying, >> adding it is his "fault" that "we were running out of the addresses."" > > Fortunately, web developers have fixed the problem according to Fox news: > > http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/26/internet-run-ip-addresses-happens-anyones-guess/ > > > "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." > Consider the source... Fox -- All the news that's fit to misquote. (or something like that).
Those guys never get anything technical or political right.* > It will be difficult initially, though: > > "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." > > I'm glad Fox has cleared all this up for us. > ROFLMAO Owen *In order for Fox to sue me for libel, they first have to prove my statement is false.
