The Internet's Space Shortage So much for the notion that there is "unlimited space on the internet"... The problem, says Leslie Daigle, chief Internet technology officer for the non-profit Internet Society, is simple math: the Internet Protocol addresses that are assigned to differentiate networks and individual computers at the edges of the Internet have 32 digits, allowing for only a finite number of addresses - about 4.2 billion. That may ... Read full entry
The Internet’s Space Shortage
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 19 March, 2008 to the technology subset
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