LCA: IP address exhaustion and the end of the open net

[Front] Posted Jan 26, 2011 12:43 UTC (Wed) by corbet

[Geoff Huston] Geoff Huston is the Chief Scientist at the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre. His frank linux.conf.au 2011 keynote took a rather different tack than Vint Cerf's talk did the day before. According to Geoff, Vint is "a professional optimist." Geoff was not even slightly optimistic; he sees a difficult period coming for the net; unless things happen impossibly quickly, the open net that we often take for granted may be gone forevermore. Click below (subscribers only) for the full report from LCA 2011.

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