Perspectives: Address issue could drive the internet into the buffers
22 Mar 2010
Forget the threat that terrorists pose to domain name servers, the lynch pins of the internet. Forget the threat that an avalanche of video traffic might bring the net to a standstill. The chief threat to the internet today is a shortage of addresses, the abstract codes which identify every element of the World Wide Web.
More than a decade ago Vint Cerf, the “father of the internet”, was urging organisations to move as rapidly as possible from the present addressing model, IPv4, to its successor IPv6.
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