Transcript The Future of IP - Network Security Portfolio

Juan Ortega
8/20/09
NTS300
Right now IPv4 dominates the Internet with some experts believing the need
for IPv6 isn’t necessary because of NAT. But even with NAT sooner or later
we will run out of public addresses and the transaction to IPv6 will begin, but
for how long?
Projected IANA Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion: 18-Jul-2011
IPv6 will dominate the Internet a few years after public IPv4 addresses run out,
but why does it have to end there? What’s going to happen next?
My guess is, once IPSec become widely used, vulnerabilities will start to appear
posing security risks, but vulnerabilities will be fixed and IPv6 will be still used.
So by 2012-2014 IPv6 should encompass over
90% of the Internet. Is that all? No.
Internet Layer Proprietary protocols will begin
to appear!
Why wouldn’t they? Small companies may not
have enough money to create one, but giant
companies can. Unlike IPX/SPX, these new
protocols can be updated frequently and used
within the company. Won’t this add security as
well?
Why is there only one
Internet? Why can’t there be
more. All those “Private LAN”
boxes, why can’t they be
private their own Private
Internet?
Companies would be able to
create new Internet’s and
charge people for using it.
What about having a “Hack
Free Internet” were its all out
war, hack everyone you want!
Won’t you pay money to
connect to it!
“Late last year, Google purchased a 270,000sq ft telecom interconnection facilities
in New York. It is believed that from here, Google plans to link up and power the
dark fiber system and turn it into a working internet network of its own.
A leading content provider, who did not wish to be named, told Times Online: "We
are in discussions with Google to provide content for their alternative internet
service, to be distributed through their Google Cube product. As far as I'm aware
they have been conducting negotiations with a number of other players in our
marketplace to provide quality content to their users.
However, industry insiders fear that the development of a network of Google Cubes
powered over a Google-owned internet network will greatly increase the power that
Google wields over online publishers and internet users.
Should Google successfully launch an alternative network, it is theoretically
possible for them to block out competitor websites and only allow users to access
websites that have paid Google to be shown to their users.”
Cohen, B. (2006). Rumors mount over Google’s internet plan. Retrieved August 20, 2009 from Times Online Web
site: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article726033.ece
Every ISP today
takes you to the
TCP/IP Internet,
the only thing
your paying
extra for is
speed. Why
can’t there be
more ISPs, each
taking you to
different
Internets? Have
the IPv6 be the
“public” Internet
and every other
proprietary.
 Unfortunately, because of all the different kinds of Internet Layer protocols,
learning each one in order to understand it will probably be as tick as the “Guide to
TCP/IP” book. Having to take another class like TCP/IP would be a pain in the ass.
 Because each Internet would be controlled by a company, that company has
complete full control of the connectivity and may used that to grab private
information.
 Some companies might develop bad, horrible, unstable, unsecure IP protocols
just for profit from consumers.
 Operating systems would have to support all protocols available!
 The government will be all over the place looking for crime on different Internet’s.
IPv6 is too well developed to be forgotten, I do think people would forget about it.
Maybe ISPs will support IPv6 with other IPs and the customer can choose
between public and private.
What I want to see is how creative
new IPs can be developed since
IPv4/IPv6 basically uses methods like
post offices uses. What if there were
new ways to exchange data? If it
catches on maybe IPv6 will adopt and
evolve to IPv7.
What about separating Internet’s from the ones we already have, companies or
governments can get their own portion IPv7a, IPv7b, I mean theirs 128-bit of
addresses! You can split that up, not into LANs but separate Internets, maybe
that would be a better idea then having different proprietary protocols.
IP is always evolving gradually, but since by the year 2050 Quantum or
Nan computers will be in effect, I say we do something to make today's
Internet more creative and impressive then it already is.