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The end of the Internet is near — and in less than three years, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
The reason? More than 85% of the available addresses have already been allocated and the OECD predicts we will have run out completely by early 2011.
These aren’t the normal web addresses you type into your browser’s window, and which were recently freed up by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the body responsible for allocating domain names, to allow thousands of new internet domains ending in, for instance, .newyork, .london or .xxx.
Beneath those names lie numerical Internet protocol addresses that denote individual devices connected to the internet. These form the foundation for all online communications, from e-mail and web pages to voice chat and streaming video.
When the current IP address scheme was introduced in 1981, there were fewer than 500 computers connected to the Internet. Its founders could be forgiven for thinking that allowing for a potential 4 billion would last for ever. However, less than 30 years later, the Internet is rapidly running out. Every day thousands of new devices ranging from massive web servers down to individual mobile phones go online and gobble up more combinations and permutations. (more)
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Anyone here think this is prime opportunity to re-design the internet the way it should be?
Because of its current design, spam is virtually impossible to stop. It's relatively easy to disguise where e-mail is coming from, both from a mail address & IP address standpoint.
Of course, if people would quit clicking on it, spam wouldn't even be profitable. But it's so inexpensive that all it takes is a few clicks out of a thousand to make it profitable.
I have no idea what it would take to correct the problem. But with IP addresses quickly running out, I can only hope the best & brightest are putting their collective heads together to not only solve that problem, but others as well while they're at it.
07-07-2008, 05:36 PM
The End of the Internet
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