When today’s ’net dies
18 Dec 2009
The American Registry for Internet Numbers says that IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) addresses—all 4,294,967,296 of them—will run out sometime in 2012. Will that mark the end of the Internet as we know it? Hardly.
Organizations are already in the process of getting ready to roll over to a new addressing scheme, Internet Protocol version 6. Is your enterprise prepared?
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NEVER Not for next 100 years! History from analog world gives us the indicator that toady the tip and ring interface is up and running after 100+ years in service.
IPv6 will coexist and inter-work with IPv4.
United States Patent No. 174,465 was issued to Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, and became recognized as the most valuable patent in history. Yet early efforts to popularize the telephone were met with disappointment. Though people paid to hear Alexander Graham Bell lecture on “the miracle discovery of the age,” for a long time they seemed unaware of the telephone’s possibilities.
The telephone is an excellent analogy. Just as periodically the number of digits in a phone number has needed to be increased, to allow for an ever growing number of telephone numbers, so must the number of bytes in an IP address increase. Hence the need for IPv6. Just as the 4-digit phone number my grandmother once had is now fully obsolete, so will the 4-byte IP address soon be obsolete.
So, yes, UCIPv6, the net will most likely go on for at least the next hundred years, but with a longer IP address! IPv6 ftw! : )