The new, larger version of the Internet: IPv6

google.com/ipv6 -- Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, and a founding father of the Internet, discusses the next version of the Internet, IPv6, and why we need it.

When the Internet launched operationally in 1983, no one ever dreamed that there might be billions of devices and users trying to get online. But like a telephone network that is running out of phone numbers, the current Internet is running out of IP addresses, and if we don't roll out Internet Protocol v6 (IPv6), we won't have the room we need to grow and the Internet would become tangled, unsafe and unsustainable.

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[Alguien208]

Really, people ARE stupid...

[Eshaan Menon]

That comment gave me cancer.

[Tom McLoughlin]

We are still a few years away from the residential ISP's switching over to IPv6 though, companies are starting to enable IPv6 access to their websites but we really need to wait for the ISP's to switch over.

[lunchboxps3]

this was in 2012 u dork :P

[Legionaairre]

You know, seeing as its June and hasn't happened yet and everything...

[spiders9000]

I like how important this change was but I didn't even notice it happen.

[Letanas Volundarkvioa]

He's one of the guys who helped design and implement TCP/IP and if you bothered to listen to what he was saying IPv4 has 4.3 billion potential addresses. With mobile phones alone, there are now over 5 billion mobile phones. All of those need their own unique IP to connect to the internet.

We need a larger internet (that being IPv6) in order to connect any and all devices currently AND in the future. Technology is all about the future, not just the moment.

[Letanas Volundarkvioa]

Well then he needs to get off the internet and start making some vigors!

[TeaRoller]

i dunno but he looks like a bioshock infinite charakter :3

[TheAphev]

What the fuck are you talking about? He's just making the internet larger and you're just calling him a dick because of that? If you don't like what they're doing to the internet maybe you should get off from it.

[Jay Chason]

@GillbotRebirth  what is proper? Answer me that.