Monday, January 03, 2005
China becomes IPv6 "First mover"
China turned up its nationwide IPv6 network last week.
Link -- thanks to Bill St. Arnaud for the pointer.
"We were a learner and follower in the development of the first generation Internet, but we have caught up with world's leaders in the next-generation Internet, become a first mover, and won respect and attention from the international community," said Wu Jianping, director of the expert committee of the China Education and Research Network (CERNET) and a mastermind in the development of the next-generation Internet in China.
In the current Internet based on IPv4 technology, the United States controls 74 per cent of 4 billion IP addresses, while the amount that China has is only equal to a campus of the University of California, despite its 80 million Internet users . . . [but] . . . if an IPv4 address has a weight of one gram, the weight of all IPv4 addresses is one 76th of the Empire State Building in New York, but the weight of all IPv6 addresses will be equal to the 56 times that of the earth.Kinda puts a new spin on "Internet governance," huh?
Link -- thanks to Bill St. Arnaud for the pointer.
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