| Silicon cockroaches, 'dirty' IPv4 addresses and other Internet oddities | |||
| Posted by: Jordi on Thursday, April 01, 2010 - 12:18 PM | |||
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The world's leading Internet engineers see many surprising trends occurring under the covers of this complex network environment. Among their findings are the evolution of silicon cockroaches — tiny, mobile, unattended wireless devices — and "dirty" Internet address space that can't be used by network operators. Here are a few eye-openers about what’s really going on in the Internet infrastructure that were discussed at a meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) held in Anaheim last week. | ||
| Complete info at ComputerWorld, NetworkWorld and ITworldCanada. | |||