Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Jan 27, 2011, at 4:24 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:

> On 27/01/2011 11:21, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> > "I thought it was an experiment and I thought that 4.3 billion IPv4
> > addresses would be enough to do an experiment," Cerf was quoted as saying,
> > adding it is his "fault" that "we were running out of the addresses.""
>
> Fortunately, web developers have fixed the problem according to Fox news:
>
> http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/26/internet-run-ip-addresses-happens-anyones-guess/ 
>
> "Web developers have tried to compensate for this problem by creating IPv6 -- a system that recognizes six-digit IP 
> addresses rather than four-digit ones."
Consider the source... Fox -- All the news that's fit to misquote. (or something like that).

Those guys never get anything technical or political right.*

> It will be difficult initially, though:
>
> "But IPv6 isn't backwards-compatible with IPv4, meaning that it's not able to read most content that operates on an 
> IPv4 system. At best, the user experience will be clunky and slow. At worst, instead of a webpage, all users will be 
> able to view is a blank page."
>
> I'm glad Fox has cleared all this up for us.
ROFLMAO

Owen

*In order for Fox to sue me for libel, they first have to prove my statement is false.