Because the present system awards each network a minimum of 256 addresses – even though there may only be 10 computers in the network – the Internet may run out of addresses by 2005. Longer addresses should push the day of reckoning centuries into the future.
Predictor: Mann, Charles
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for Science, Charles Mann writes about a new Internet Protocol (IP): ”IPv6 avoids a looming ‘address crunch’ facing the system by increasing the length of addresses fourfold, turning them into strings of 16 numbers rather than the present four. Because the present system awards each network a minimum of 256 addresses – even though there may only be 10 computers in the network – the Internet may run out of addresses by 2005. Longer addresses should push the day of reckoning centuries into the future.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Protocols
Name of publication: Science
Title, headline, chapter name: Regulating Cyberspace
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web1.infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/74/774/35487673w1/purl=rc2_ITOF_1_regulating+cyberspace_xx__1995_______Science_______________________________________________&dyn=sig!1?sw_aep=ncliveec
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