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Right. So what happens when we face container number exhaustion and we found out that some C developers have been using char id[12]?

SV_BubbleTime 4y ago
I suspect they’ll move to Container.v6 and that everyone will dislike because the values are harder to read to say… then the industry will take an additional decade or two to actually start to use it.
- katbyte 4y ago
  We are approaching decade 3 of ipv6 and ipv4 is still the majority of internet traffic.
  - smcl 4y ago
    Being a bit more kind, ipv6 only really started to get moving in the wild around ~2010 so we are at the start of the second decade. It has climbed steadily since this point and will be the majority globally within a couple of years. It is already the majority of traffic in the USA, Germany, France and India.
  - throw0101a 4y ago
    > […] ipv4 is still the majority of internet traffic. Not if you're on mobile. Lots of cell networks only give IPv6 addresses to phones. E.g., T-Mobile in the US: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNMNglk_CvE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNMNglk_CvE
throw0101a 4y ago
People will have to upgrade by the deadline. This is not unheard of (2004): > Recently the Uniform Code Council (the organization that governs UPC bar codes) announced that starting in January 2005, they will require that all retailers and trading partners in the United States and Canada that presently scan 12-digit UPC bar code symbols be capable of scanning 8 digit EAN-8 and 13 digit EAN-13 bar code symbols as well. Furthermore, the UCC strongly recommends enhancing systems to accept bar code data of up to 14 digits in preparation for a new numbering system called GTIN (Global Trade Identification Numbers) that will eventually be used to identify products world wide. * https://www.taltech.com/blog/post/changes_in_the_upc_code https://www.taltech.com/blog/post/changes_in_the_upc_code * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Product_Code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Product_Code * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Trade_Item_Number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Trade_Item_Number Sidenote: it would be interesting to see what would need to be done to expand the allowed telephone number length: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164

SV_BubbleTime 4y ago

I suspect they’ll move to Container.v6 and that everyone will dislike because the values are harder to read to say… then the industry will take an additional decade or two to actually start to use it.

katbyte 4y ago
We are approaching decade 3 of ipv6 and ipv4 is still the majority of internet traffic.
- smcl 4y ago
  Being a bit more kind, ipv6 only really started to get moving in the wild around ~2010 so we are at the start of the second decade. It has climbed steadily since this point and will be the majority globally within a couple of years. It is already the majority of traffic in the USA, Germany, France and India.
- throw0101a 4y ago
  > […] ipv4 is still the majority of internet traffic. Not if you're on mobile. Lots of cell networks only give IPv6 addresses to phones. E.g., T-Mobile in the US: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNMNglk_CvE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNMNglk_CvE

throw0101a 4y ago

People will have to upgrade by the deadline. This is not unheard of (2004): > Recently the Uniform Code Council (the organization that governs UPC bar codes) announced that starting in January 2005, they will require that all retailers and trading partners in the United States and Canada that presently scan 12-digit UPC bar code symbols be capable of scanning 8 digit EAN-8 and 13 digit EAN-13 bar code symbols as well. Furthermore, the UCC strongly recommends enhancing systems to accept bar code data of up to 14 digits in preparation for a new numbering system called GTIN (Global Trade Identification Numbers) that will eventually be used to identify products world wide. * https://www.taltech.com/blog/post/changes_in_the_upc_code https://www.taltech.com/blog/post/changes_in_the_upc_code * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Product_Code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Product_Code * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Trade_Item_Number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Trade_Item_Number Sidenote: it would be interesting to see what would need to be done to expand the allowed telephone number length: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164