Comment Re:We are not suffering from IPv4 exhaustion (Score 5) 191
Short sightedness has caused the depletion problem (if you can call 160 million possibilities short sightedness)...but the issue is kind of moot right now.
IPv6 is coming...and we won't run out of addresses. We need creative ways to deal with problems that we have right now as we wait for IPv6.
The issue of NATed addresses is a real one and a barrier for peer-2-peer communications, not the hype, but true application-to- application communications that can allow networks to understand their state and topology to make intelligent routing and communications decisions. In order for this to occur the Internet needs to go back to its roots of true bi-directional communications. Publishers cannot simply view nodes as passive receivers of content...but as active participants on the network at large with important things to say and receive. The current trend for ISPs to provide asynchronous bandwidth is our next barrier and a trend that hopefully is reversed as more devices and home users demand to be publishers of content and information.
IPv6 is coming...and we won't run out of addresses. We need creative ways to deal with problems that we have right now as we wait for IPv6.
The issue of NATed addresses is a real one and a barrier for peer-2-peer communications, not the hype, but true application-to- application communications that can allow networks to understand their state and topology to make intelligent routing and communications decisions. In order for this to occur the Internet needs to go back to its roots of true bi-directional communications. Publishers cannot simply view nodes as passive receivers of content...but as active participants on the network at large with important things to say and receive. The current trend for ISPs to provide asynchronous bandwidth is our next barrier and a trend that hopefully is reversed as more devices and home users demand to be publishers of content and information.
