On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 12:21 +0100, G T Smith wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
FALSE: I've worked in IPv4, IPv6, NetBIOS, IPX, and SNA. A multi-protocol network *IS THE FUTURE*! Fact. You can dodge IPv6 for awhile if you like. You will not be able to forever; IPv6 & IPv4 dual-stack networks are going to be the *norm* for the next decade. I am sure someone would have said something like this about the QWERTY keyboard layout (which was designed to slow down the typist), non-QWERTY keyboards are still relatively uncommon in the English world.
Ah yes, the old yarn about qwerty. Only problem: other keyboard layouts aren't any faster. QWERTY will be with us, and the norm, forever. Because, unlike IPv6, switching keyboard schemes really doesn't offer any advantages.
History tends to show that the adoption of technology is not just about whether it is best, but also whether the technology addresses an important perceived need or provides a new service that there is a demand for, the cost of adopting it, and the vested interests involved.
Well, I don't know about "vested interests". But *Microsoft* now *requires* IPv6 for some of there newest products and technologies [those products WILL NOT WORK with IPv4]. So those M$ shops WILL all be supporting IPv6. I congratulate M$ for this move, it is going to be a big driver in IPv6 adoption.
Readers of the runes will tend to suspect by the time agreement is made something new will come along. Given no-one seems to be be prepared to give a schedule for any central changes at the moment 10 years may be an underestimate. One would expect many with mostly functioning infrastructures to concentrate on the things that they know are not working now, rather than the things that may not be in the future. AFAIK the Europe/US take up is not good. NAT made the immediate problem go away. It yet another kludge that has become a default (as is the QWERTY keyboard). At the moment IPv6 provides roaming internet/IP capabilities, (something IPv4 does not do) but that is mainly of interest for suppliers of mobile networks.
Right, because a faster and more efficient Internet [IPv6 is *FASTER*] isn't of any interest to anyone.
When the bean counter can't use the IPv6 web-service let me know what happens. ICANN have got to shoot themselves in the organisational foot before this becomes an issue. There are lot of people who want the root name servers to be controlled outside of the US, and of course the US is unenthusiastic about the idea, blowing awayea large chunks of the network name space is not going to make friends and influence people..
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