Mood:  quizzical

Dashed in amongst the stories of the stoppage of Internet use in Egypt (about 85 percent of it), have you seen this headline:

Consumer backlash grows over usage billing?

http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Consumer+backlash+grows+over+usage+billing/4186889/story.html

The world wide web is running out of IP addresses. Of course, the nets designers,engineers and maintenance people (n-demp's-,..just kidding;)/...

have been planning for this for the past 10 years and have a transition plan.

the idea is to go get everyone to move from IPV4 to IPV6 (did we miss something? Not really. IPV5 was a come and already gone test protocol for video that no longer used)

when the last of the IP addresses are assigned in October of this year.

So scroll down on this page here to read about Canadas plan (Hint: government response? "WTF is IPV6?"""

http://www.davidellis.ca/2011/01/26/arin-out-of-ipv4-addresses-contd/

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Meanwhile so far there is only one company in Canada looking for trial customers for IPV6.

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Teksavvy-Looking-For-IPv6-Beta-Testers-107066

More helpful links

http://gogonet.gogo6.com/group/v6incanada

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/iosswrel/ps6537/ps6553/whitepaper_c11-586154.html

And this report brought to you by the Economist.

Posted by mach1231 at 10:45 AM PST

Updated: Saturday, January 29, 2011 5:18 PM PST

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