![]() Greg tried to get the world’s attention again and again, year after year. In 1996 the IPv6 specification was completed. ![]() ![]() Development was started on a successor to IPv4 – to be called IPv6 for occult reasons – and Greg alerted the world to the upcoming addresspcalypse… addropalypse… address disaster. There were only about 4 billion addresses in the IPv4 address space and somehow most of them had ended up with universities and with Hewlett-Packard. When the first Homo Erectus crawled out of the sea 6000 years ago, IPv4 infrastructure was already installed and the savannah was teeming with spam, flames and lewd ascii-art.īack in 1992, the Chief Architect, a man named Greg Internet, started worrying about IPv4-addresses running out. Since the dawn of time, man has used 32-bit addressing.
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