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posted by janrinok on Thursday June 07 2018, @03:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-give-huge-blocks-to-businesses dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday June 08 2018, @01:47PM (2 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 08 2018, @01:47PM (#690309) Journal

    So do a lot of things. But good luck with that. Java is going to be around a long time. Nothing is perfect. Everything has warts. If there were one perfect language, everyone would already be using it.

    I am genuinely curious though, what is it that gives you such passion about Java?

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  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Sunday June 10 2018, @09:29PM (1 child)

    I am genuinely curious though, what is it that gives you such passion about Java?

    1. Oracle
    2. Deployment nightmares due to version incomatibilities
    3. Performance, or rather, lack thereof
    4. Oracle
    5. Because you like it! :)

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    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday June 11 2018, @02:33PM

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 11 2018, @02:33PM (#691401) Journal

      I can't blame you for #1.

      #2 is something that is within your (or your organization's) control. I generally don't have version incompatibility problems. But I begin deploying internal test servers, first one or two, then more, on new versions long before we consider putting new versions in production. Yet I manage to be far ahead of lots of people I hear that are still stuck on, say, Java 6. I am not running bleeding edge. But I tend to get to a MAJOR new version with significant differences, within about a year.

      #3 is something we can disagree about. I value abstraction far more than performance. You can buy performance with bigger better hardware. I am optimizing for dollars. I am NOT optimizing for bytes and CPU cycles. Optimize for dollars. If I need 64 GB more ram, my bosses will give it to me if I can beat my competitor to market.

      #4, can't argue with you there.

      #5, I am left puzzled. (and right puzzled)

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