March 2006
Beginner
272 pages
5h 48m
English
Thesis 61The necessary addressing scheme already exists.
As we considered earlier, a technology with the ambition to colonize much of the observable world has to offer some provision for addressing the very large number of nodes implied by such an ambition. We've seen that a provision along these lines appears to exist, in the form of something called IPv6, but what exactly does this cryptic little string mean?
In order to fully understand the implications of IPv6, we have to briefly consider what the Internet was supposed to be "for" in the minds of its original designers, engineers named Robert E. Kahn and Vint Cerf. As it turns out, Kahn ...
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