[kcar]

WWon't happen, but worst case, just create a new internet and leave them holding the porn-laden bag?

[Dark Knight]

Kofi: We need to start an Internet for Food program!

DK

[JRandomFreeper]

...but worst case, just create a new internet and leave them holding the porn-laden bag?

I have thought through that scenario. Some smart pup would bridge between the two internets with a Timex Z-80, or S-100 box, or a Cray, or something, just so he could get his porn, and suddenly, there is once again... one internet.

In every thought experiment I have run, there is exactly one internet per populated planet, and no government can control it.

Intranets are subsets, and generally have serious problems in not merging with the internet. A parallel internet will eventually merge with the other. There can be only one.

/john

[Nip]

You may be on to something here.

Last summer there was a tech meeting in California where a whole new system was proposed.

We are currently running under Internet Protocol V4 (IPv4). At this meeting it was proposed to jump to IPv6. The biggest difference is IPv6 is, if I remember correctly, a 128-bit system. It will be able to read the legacy IPv4 but I doubt IPv4 (a 56-bit system) will be able to read IPv6.

If there are any tech types out there please correct my faulty reporting as I am a computer user not a computer wizard..