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Things are looking up for our next-generation internet.
[...] But the shortage of IPv4 elbow room became a steadily worsening issue -- have you noticed all those phones that can connect to the network now, for example? So tech companies banded together to try to advance IPv6. The result: World IPv6 Day on June 8, 2011, when tech giants like Google, Facebook and Yahoo tested IPv6 sites to find any problems. For a sequel, they restarted those IPv6 connections and left them on starting on World IPv6 Launch Day, June 6, 2012.
Back then, there was still a risk that IPv6 wouldn't attract a critical mass of usage even with the tech biggies on board. The result would've been an internet complicated by multilayer trickery called network address translation, or NAT, that let multiple devices share the same IP address. But statistics released Wednesday by one IPv6 organizer, the Internet Society, show that IPv6 is growing steadily in usage, with about a quarter of us now using it worldwide. It looks like we're finally moving into a future that's been within our grasp since the Clinton administration.
"While there is obviously more to be done -- like roll out IPv6 to the other 75 percent of the Internet -- it's becoming clear that IPv6 is here to stay and is well-positioned to support the Internet's growth for the next several decades," said Lorenzo Colitti, a Google software engineer who's worked on IPv6 for years.
[...] How much room does IPv6 have? Enough to give network addresses to 340 undecillion devices -- that's two to the 128th power, or 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 if you're keeping score.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Friday June 08 2018, @12:45AM (6 children)
Every person on the planet could get their own /64 subnet. That leaves 64 bits of information for each address, which is enough to encode any two emoji [wikipedia.org].
There are roughly 1,212 emoji [wikipedia.org] in version 11 of Unicode. So 1,468,944 combinations could be made with two emoji alone, and that's likely to increase since they have been adding new ones every year. All you have to do to remember your partial IPv6 address is remember two emoji! If you can control what subnet you get allocated, you can just memorize four emoji!
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday June 08 2018, @12:55AM (3 children)
The fact that everybody can use emojis in their IP address doesn't make emojis a smart thing, does it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 08 2018, @02:44AM (2 children)
Have you had *anything* to do with public service organisms?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday June 08 2018, @02:52AM (1 child)
Can you avoid "public service organisms" for all the time of your life, even if you aren't working in/as one? If you ask me if I ever worked as a public servant, no I didn't.
Question: what's the relevance of your question, though?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 09 2018, @01:22PM
Well, I have.
It refers to "doesn't make emojis a smart thing, does it?"
Public Service organizations (damn you autocorrect, must be thankful I suppose that it didn't come back as orgasms) have a long history of not doing the smart thing sometimes for years or even decades
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday June 08 2018, @01:53PM (1 child)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday June 08 2018, @02:05PM
I think you are mistaking my comment for a well thought out proposal.
Keep it variable width and you can put more characters in there. Like using 4 Latin characters or numbers instead of emogees, or mixing them.
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