The End of IP Addresses?

As the majority of our discussions on this blog relate to the Internet, it seemed necessary to discuss the issue of vanishing IPs. According to Vint Cerf, a main developer in creating the Internet, the Internet protocol addresses (IPs) days are numbered.

In 1977, Vint Cerf and his colleagues created the web using the IPv4 system. The IPv4 system uses 32 binary numbers that create a unique number which allows Internet devices to communicate with each other. However, the fast expansion of devices and an increase in Internet consumption has decreased the current amount of IP addresses. Current figures that the Internet will run out of IP addresses in 2010. Cerf recommends that current Internet users should transfer to a new system, the IPv6 system which uses 128 binary numbers. Here is the full article.