A recent Forbes story has sparkled speculations about IP addresses being assigned to each and every human being.
Besides the Science-Fiction scenario, it seems logical to assign to all living human beings an IP address hence bypassing any further IDs, password and so on.
IP V4? No way… 32 bit (less the reserved addresses) is a lot less than 4 billion IP addresses (and we’ve already ran out of them).
So?
IP V6, may seems legit: one (very complex) string that may become part of the life of every human being just like DNA: no more passwords.
The story is quite compelling and thought provoking: provided the Internet of Things is getting every day more complex, and given the 2025 deadline, this may become a real scenario.
Legal implications, poverty discrimination and many other aspects of the problem should be carefully analyzed, though.
