I should preface this post that I won't get into politics, and neither will DorkCorp. We're only going off of direct quotes of politicians, and it is not our intention to politically lean in any direction. Some of these things are only worth bringing up, because some politicians are making IT promises. By some politicians, we're looking at President Barack Obama who very much wishes to rollout high speed internet to all. Fantastic plan. We Love It. No joke. We do have a few problems with it, and its namely that of IPv6. It hasn't been mentioned anywhere.
What the is IPv6? Hopefully come the conclusion, you'll recognize the imminent problem we are facing. Without getting overly philosophical, I understand each industry has it's own set of problems. I understand everyone thinks their problem is the most important, I get it, believe me I do. So i'm not here to rant about how "Money needs to be thrown at the IT industry to save America." I'm merely presenting a problem that hasn't been addressed at all in Obama's promise to rollout high speed internet to America. After all, if that promise rolls out, we as IT guys are going to have to deliver. So for the next several minutes of writing, and you reading, I'm going to worry aloud. The following is a summarized quote from myself in response to "What is so great about IPv6 and what are 10 reasons you could present to a manger on why to transition?" on Linkedin.com (full question and my response)
"Currently, we have system in place that allows us to address computers all across the internet. Now when we need to add more computers let's say a new website, or maybe a new customer to an ISP, we have to address them to they can in turn know how to address everything else. We face a new problem that is going far unbeknownst to most and that is, the internet is running out of space. It's somewhat of an armageddon scenario for the internet you might say, but by current estimates the internet will literally stop growing and no longer be able to support more people/websites by the end of 2011. This isn't acceptable! We need a new addressing scheme to support more people. Think of it like this, when the population in an area grows phone companies start running out of phone numbers. As a result, new area codes are created. There are only so many potential combination of area codes that can be generated before you need more. Area codes right now are three digits, what if there were so many people in the US that area codes needed to become 6 digits? In the same exact fashion, this is what we have to do to the internet. We need a means of addressing a greater spectrum of 'things' on the internet.
In addition, transitioning to this new system, we support a faster and more reliable infrastructure. To be more specific, we find a higher Quality of Service or QoS to support time sensitive traffic. Projects that need to done by a certain time, can be sent with the guarantee that they in fact will get there without delay. It for the most part, removes the delay of the internet. No more 'Just hit refresh, it should be there.'"
Links:
http://www.bgpexpert.com/addrspace2007.php
http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/bnr/ftp/f18_ip6.pdf
This all being said, IPv6 needs to happen otherwise I don't see how this magical Barack Obama internet experience is going to happen. Let it also be said, I'm not asking for Obama to come on national television and tell the masses about "IPv6 will save this country!" However, I have seen no paperwork, or evidence to support that this upgrade is even being considered. Current estimates show the internet will stop growing come mid 2011. Japan is buying up address space left and right, another group of people only adding to this issue are the overwhelming growing amount of iPhone users. Yup, they are internet devices, they need addresses too and currently starting to consume a lot. I'm not yelling at you guys (even though i hate the iPhone). I'm merely stating the facts.
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