Bigbro's foray into the scary world of blogging
Why are the likes of Minister Eamonn Ryan, Fred Baker (Cisco), John Boland (HEAnet), representatives from BT, TSSG, Google, Hutchinson 3G, Tiscali and many others gathered in Dublin Castle today? Policy makers and technical representatives from ISPs and various other high tech bodies fill thhe audience, learning about the potential impacts of the internet running out of IPv4 addresses - the unique identifiers that allow each computer on the internet to talk to another. Given the pervasiveness of the internet in all walks of life today, this very real limitation on the existing internet infrastructure that has impacts across all walks of life.
There appear to be two big questions on everyone's mind: firstly, what's the impact, and how can we mitigate it, and secondly, is IPv6 really the answer?
HEAnet are providing a live stream of the talks, available at http://live.heanet.ie/ipv6.asx.
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