Scalability: Inputs from WP7 and Handle Sample Clauses

Scalability: Inputs from WP7 and Handle. ‌ The IoT6 project proposes technologies and applications addressing some problems which arise in the transition from the current Internet to the emerging “Internet of Things”. The tremendous growth of the Internet is owed not only to rapid advances in underlying hardware technology, but also - and crucially - to the fact that it turned out to be accepted and embraced by the general public to a much larger extent than could be expected. In particular, the latter aspect was not generally foreseen when the current architecture of the Internet was designed. This is the root cause for most of the scalability problems that are now being addressed in recent architectural changes and extensions. Among those problems, two key ones are an increase in size, i.e., node count, as well as an increase in diversity. Diversity in this case refers to the ability to connect devices with a wide range of hardware capabilities to the Internet, from powerful PC workstations down to individual binary sensors or actuators. The increase in network size is a critical issue due to the fact that it compounds the basic problems of addressing and routing. However, since IPv4 addressing has been stretched beyond its original limits for quite some time now, there already is an established solution to this problem, namely the IPv6 addressing scheme. While it remains to be seen whether the Internet of Things might possibly outgrow even the IPv6 address space in the foreseeable future, it was clear from the start that IoT6 would be based entirely on IPv6. It therefore, inherits an IPv6 networks scaling capacity, which can reasonably be deemed sufficient for IoT6 at this point; its potential bottlenecks are well beyond the scope of the IoT6 project.