A Series of Tubes #85: No, the Internet’s Not Full and the Sky’s Not Falling
June 10th, 2009Take a little astroturf, add a little lobbying, throw in a kilo or so of self-interest, stir it in with buckets of ignorance and what do you get? Scare stories about the imminent failure of the Internet – the ‘net’s too small, the exaflood is on its way, and we’re all going to hell in a handbasket.
To try and counter the gloom-hype, Tubes talks to Geoff Houston of APNIC. Although Houston is well known for tracking the gradual exhaustion of IPv4 addresses, in other matters he is optimistic that the technology and business models of the Internet are flexible enough to survive even the exaflood.
And we talk regulation, censorship, and Google Wave with Stilgherrian of crikey.com.au.
