Vint Cerf: The Launch of a New Larger Internet

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Vint Cerf: The Launch of a New Larger Internet

By CircleID Reporter
June 05, 2012, 6:51 pm PDT Views: 19,753 Add Comment

In preparation for the World IPv6 Launch tomorrow, Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, and a founding father of the Internet, discusses the next version of the Internet, and why we need it.

“When the Internet launched operationally in 1983, no one ever dreamed that there might be billions of devices and users trying to get online. But like a telephone network that is running out of phone numbers, the current Internet is running out of IP addresses, and if we don’t roll out Internet Protocol v6 (IPv6), we won’t have the room we need to grow and the Internet would become tangled, unsafe and unsustainable.”

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