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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[Eshaan Menon]

That comment gave me cancer.

[buddybenjguitarhero]

IPv6 has exactly 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,37­4,607,431,768,211,456 addresses.

[NoShit12]

Fuck this, i'm waiting for IPv6S.

[unbreakable footage]

how did you come up with 85 years? ipv6 will never overmax. its way too big

[astafzciba]

my ip address will be lie this

000.000.000.000.000.000.000.00­0.000.000.000.112.298.231.445.­001

[mehsmehmeh]

or 2^128

[Nathan Bookham]

Because your provider is using IPv4 internally.

[Abdullah Rowaished]

But when I go online, I check the modem and it says the connection type to WAN is IPv4; can someone explain, please?

[UninstallingWindows]

Its funny how quicly technology advances.

"Imagine if your phone couldnt connect to internet"

from

"Imagine if your phone could connect to internet" :D

[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.