Question: Are you disappointed with the take-up of ID P6 paragraph?
Dr. Cerf - Yes, IDP six was standardized in the early 1990s the version of Internet that you are using today was standardized 1978.
It was roughly 5 years after the experiment was begun and at the time it was still an experiment the number of terminations that could be supported by IDP version 4 was 4.3 billion.
When I made the decision in 1977 to use a 32-bit address space which multiplies out to 4.3 billion I thought this was still an experiment and I thought 4.3 billion terminations ought to be enough to do a pretty good experiment what I didn't understand is the experiment was not going to end.
The network was simply going to keep growing, so here we are in 2007 we are well within visibility of running out all the unique addresses of the Internet I want to distinguish the numerical addresses of the Internet from the domaining system which is a completely separate layer which does not look to me like running out at all and I doubt that it ever will.
We can see potentials for running out the spiked fact is that there are out network and access translation boxes that artificially expand the address space in ways which are quite damaging to the end to end protocol.
So I'm pushing very hard for ID P6 to be abducted, at the moment software exists for all routes, software exists for all the computers, laptops, desktops, services, and the alike forms. All the main software makers, Microsoft, Apple, Linux and the various UNIX derivatives, all have IDP seeks to detectability.
The Chinese have already announced that they are well along in implementing IDP six nationwide they wanted ready and operating for the Olympics.
I was just in Beijing last week I had a chance to see the work of the Chinese electronics and rigid educational research network which is all IDP 67 have demonstrated full capability to run a an IDP 6 application suite.
So you will find me repeatedly pressing to get IDP implementing at the ISP level and I'll be very unhappy until I’ve actually seen that happening.