Juan Ortega 8/20/09 NTS300

Right now IPv4 dominates the Internet with some experts believing the need for IPv6 isn’t necessary because of NAT. But even with NAT sooner or later we will run out of public addresses and the transaction to IPv6 will begin, but for how long?

Projected IANA Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion: 18-Jul-2011 IPv6 will dominate the Internet a few years after public IPv4 addresses run out, but why does it have to end there? What’s going to happen next? My guess is, once IPSec become widely used, vulnerabilities will start to appear posing security risks, but vulnerabilities will be fixed and IPv6 will be still used.

So by IPv6 should encompass over 90% of the Internet. Is that all? No. Internet Layer Proprietary protocols will begin to appear! Why wouldn’t they? Small companies may not have enough money to create one, but giant companies can. Unlike IPX/SPX, these new protocols can be updated frequently and used within the company. Won’t this add security as well?

Why is there only one Internet? Why can’t there be more. All those “Private LAN” boxes, why can’t they be private their own Private Internet? Companies would be able to create new Internet’s and charge people for using it. What about having a “Hack Free Internet” were its all out war, hack everyone you want! Won’t you pay money to connect to it!

“Late last year, Google purchased a 270,000sq ft telecom interconnection facilities in New York. It is believed that from here, Google plans to link up and power the dark fiber system and turn it into a working internet network of its own. A leading content provider, who did not wish to be named, told Times Online: "We are in discussions with Google to provide content for their alternative internet service, to be distributed through their Google Cube product. As far as I'm aware they have been conducting negotiations with a number of other players in our marketplace to provide quality content to their users. However, industry insiders fear that the development of a network of Google Cubes powered over a Google-owned internet network will greatly increase the power that Google wields over online publishers and internet users. Should Google successfully launch an alternative network, it is theoretically possible for them to block out competitor websites and only allow users to access websites that have paid Google to be shown to their users.” Cohen, B. (2006). Rumors mount over Google’s internet plan. Retrieved August 20, 2009 from Times Online Web site:

Every ISP today takes you to the TCP/IP Internet, the only thing your paying extra for is speed. Why can’t there be more ISPs, each taking you to different Internets? Have the IPv6 be the “public” Internet and every other proprietary.

 Unfortunately, because of all the different kinds of Internet Layer protocols, learning each one in order to understand it will probably be as tick as the “Guide to TCP/IP” book. Having to take another class like TCP/IP would be a pain in the ass.  Because each Internet would be controlled by a company, that company has complete full control of the connectivity and may used that to grab private information.  Some companies might develop bad, horrible, unstable, unsecure IP protocols just for profit from consumers.  Operating systems would have to support all protocols available!  The government will be all over the place looking for crime on different Internet’s.

IPv6 is too well developed to be forgotten, I do think people would forget about it. Maybe ISPs will support IPv6 with other IPs and the customer can choose between public and private. What I want to see is how creative new IPs can be developed since IPv4/IPv6 basically uses methods like post offices uses. What if there were new ways to exchange data? If it catches on maybe IPv6 will adopt and evolve to IPv7.

What about separating Internet’s from the ones we already have, companies or governments can get their own portion IPv7a, IPv7b, I mean theirs 128-bit of addresses! You can split that up, not into LANs but separate Internets, maybe that would be a better idea then having different proprietary protocols.

IP is always evolving gradually, but since by the year 2050 Quantum or Nan computers will be in effect, I say we do something to make today's Internet more creative and impressive then it already is.