On 9/1/05, Clint Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
andrew michael baron wrote:
>
> Not so fast, Josh. The internet has a very limited capacity both by
> the amount of severs in place and funny enough, based on the limited
> number of unique IP addresses (plans are in place to upgrade the
> protocol).
IPv6 is still 10 years away at best. IPv4 is too prevalent to easily
replace with an entirely different protocol. It's not just all the
applications that have to be upgraded, but upgrading all the people is
pretty fucking expensive as well.
Secondly, we're years away from running out of usable address space.
Provisions put in place in the mid 90s, including but not limited to
advocation of NAT and the implementation of Classless Interdomain
Routing (CIDR), truly stopped the scary space in which usable address
space was being allocated. We've got years before we're going to run
out of addresses. Asia on the other hand is quickly running out, but
that's because they got totally hosed on the initial allocation, but
it's a fixable problem. There is no practical limit to the amount of
video the Internet can handle at this time, only limits in the amount of
money people want to spend to provide it. It can't currently replace
broadcast television, only because multicast was never effectively
implemented over the Internet, but assuming that was (the standard has
been in place for nearly 10 years now), it would be easily possible to
offer live streaming across the Internet with minimal bandwidth
overhead, and it would largely eliminate the need for things like
BitTorrent.
Saying the internet is "very limited" is a scare tactic and is
incredibly uninformed.
Clint
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