More IPv6 woes
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on July 28, 2003 at 4:20:10 PM
The good old USA doesn't feel that we need to move over to IPv6 anytime soon, and they are correct in thinking so. This country owns around 70 percent of the IP addresses in the IPv4 space. Other countries want to move fast to get everything upgraded to IPv6.
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IPv6 addresses are 132 bits. The resulting list of IP addresses is two googols long, an enormous number. If you want to write it, it is a "3" followed by 38 zeroes. "It's a nearly infinite address space," said Cisco Systems Vice President Sangeeta Anand.