Protocol Politics
DeNardis, Laura (Professor, American University)![Protocol Politics](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/163/16330478/CHSBZCOP0316330478.jpg)
The Internet has reached a critical point. The world is running out of Internet addresses. There is a finite supply of approximately 4.3 billion Internet Protocol (IP) addresses--the unique binary numbers required for every exchange of information over the Internet--within the Internet's prevailing technical architecture (IPv4). In the 1990s the Internet standards community selected a new protocol (IPv6) that would expand the number of Interne...