IPv4 Address’ are running out!
You maybe asking yourself “What is IPv4?” and “What are IP address?”
IP address are assigned to you by your ISP (internet service provider), which you usually get through you phone or through TV company.
Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) is the fourth revision in the development of the Internet Protocol (IP) and it is the first version of the protocol to be widely deployed. Together with IPv6, it is at the core of standards-based internetworking methods of theInternet. IPv4 is still by far the most widely deployed Internet Layer protocol. As of 2010, IPv6 deployment is still in its infancy.
-Wikipedia
Since IPv4 went online almost 30 years ago, the internet has been crowded with new websites and people connecting to the internet. Everyone who connects to the internet get an IP address, no matter what OS or brand you use. Now that’s it’s been nearly 30 years since IPv4 went on line people have went online in huge numbers, which has now lead to a scarce amount of IPv4 IP address, and after we run out of those we will be forced to switch to IPv6 which has not been widely adopted thus far, but if studies prove right we will be out of IPv4 address by June 2011, next summer. At that time everyone will be forced to switch to IPv6 is they choose to stay online. It is expensive to developer software hardware to adopt the new internet protocol, but we will switch. Now, what happens after we run out of IPv6 address, well I do not know, but we will most likely move on to another internet protocol, IPv7? maybe! But until this it’s gonna be a long time until we reach that limit again, and by then we could have scraped the totoal idea of internet protocol. The fact of this post was and is they we are short of conventional IP address.
~Cory Claxon
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