Whew! I will be able to email my toaster after all.

Everyone can breathe easier now. ICANN announced IPv6 in the root system. So, there will be a limitless number of IP addresses (maybe a trillion trillion) in our future. It was, after all, getting tight with "about two-thirds of the 4.3 billion Internet addresses available . . . used up." The story from the Toronto Star is here: Domain addresses limitless, expert says. The value prop., right from the expert:

Vinton Cerf of the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers said the next-generation protocol, IPv6, had been added to its root server systems, making it possible for every person or device to have an Internet protocol address.

Posted by Grayson at July 21, 2004 07:45 AM