Lecture 7:

Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)

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Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)

Today’s Internet uses

Internet Protocol
Version 4 (IPv4) –
approximately 20
years old
Internet Protocol
Version 6 (IPv6)
(also called IPng)
will eventually
replace IPv4
Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)

• IPv6 fixes a number of problems in IPv4, such as

limited number of available IPv4 addresses
• IPv6 goes from 32 to 128 bits per address
• If whole Earth was a beach, more than enough IP
addresses for every grain of sand ... hope that will be
enough
• IPv6 also routes messages better, auto-configures for
missing computers, and includes security components
for encryption and authentication
 Decision Support Systems,
Expert Systems

If Internet becomes repository of all

knowledge, how best to use it?

Decision Support
Systems (DSS) access
data, sophisticated
analytical models,
user-friendly interfaces
Decision Support Systems,
Expert Systems
• Can make repetitive, routine decisions with known
algorithms
• Can provide alternatives and possible outcomes
for more elaborate decisions
• Expert Systems (ES) capture decision-making
rules used by experts
• Interaction with human user and available data
evolved toward decision
• Neural networks can imitate DSS and ES and
learn to make decisions
 Impact and Opportunity?
• Impact: Internet will provide fast access to
enormous amount of information and tools for using
that information
• Benefit: Immediate access for all kinds of
information in a variety of formats (text, sound,
image, video)
• Ability to make decisions based on “all” available
information… not just subset
• Decision tools that represent best wisdom of all experts
• Challenge: How to sift through enormous quantity
of information and tools available to decide what to
use in any given situation
Consumer Computer Technology
Plastic Displays
• Researchers have recently made breakthroughs in
developing displays out of polyethylene
terephthalate (PET)
• Thin, flexible, rugged plastic that you can bend, roll
up, fold, or form into practically any shape
Plastic Displays

• Mass production of plastic displays is

approximately five years away

• Applications could include notebook and

desktop displays, hand-held appliances

• Also, wearable displays sewn into clothing,

and paper thin electronic books and
newspapers
Electronic Digital Paper

• Developed at
Xerox Palo Alto
Research Center
(PARC), electronic
paper is new kind
of display

• Somewhere
between paper
and conventional
computer screen
Electronic Digital Paper
• Like paper, it is thin, lightweight, and flexible
• Like computer display, it is dynamic and rewritable
• Wide range of potential applications, including:
• Electronic paper newspapers offering breaking news,
incoming sports scores, and up to the minute stock
quotes, even as paper is being read
• Electronic paper magazines that continually update with
breaking information and make use of animated images
or movie pictures
• Electronic paper textbooks, which could be updated as
technology changes