Internet is the integral part of our day to day lives. People using internet is growing each day. But what if internet runs out of room? Just like we have phone numbers in the telephone systems which represents some particular frequency, we have IP addresses in case of internet. Currently used system IPv4 has the ability to produce 4 billion IP addresses. Currently, most of us have shared IP addresses. With the current system, it is practically impossible to satisfy the growing needs of internet.
What is being done to create more room?
The new system called IPv6 has been adopted that has the ability to generate 340 trillion trillion trillion IP addresses which sound virtually infinite. Hence we can have enough IP address for all of us.
Will it affect our internet experience any way?
No, we will have the same internet and we don't need to do anything to shift from IPv4 to IPv6. It will just happen and infact it is happening for some of us and it has already happened for many of us.
You can check if you are already shifted to IPv6 or not using this link.
Following are the resource where you can find more information:
