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  1. Re:The Whole Point if the Internet... by xaxa · · Score: 2, Informative · on Who Will Fix the Internet? No One, Apparently

    I suppose IANA could start handing out IPv6 addresses only from now on, that'd shake the industry up quickly enough...

    They won't have much choice in ~700 days. It's so close, I don't think there's much point bringing the date forward.

  2. Shouldn't we by Albanach · · Score: 0 · on DARPA Aims to Redo the Internet Protocol

    impliment the existing solution to problems with IPv4 before creating a new solution to old problems?

  3. Re:IPv6 = loss of privacy by JAZ · · Score: 1 · on Dispelling the IPv4 Address Shortage Myth

    how about you learn to Google

    have if you can't be bothered with the 70,000 links confirming that your interface address (MAC) is part of and IPV6 Address, here is just one...
    http://www.ipv6forum.com/navbar/events/birmingham0 0/presentations/YanickPouffary/sld014.htm

  4. Here are some links that might be useful. by CowBovNeal · · Score: 2, Informative · on Deep Space 6 Publishes New IPv6 Status Pages
  5. Re:IPv6 today? by Diabolical · · Score: 4, Informative · on Slashdot over IPv6

    See this link for more info regarding IPv6 and it's advantages in today's networks.

  6. Re:I'll guess I'll admit it.. by Aussie · · Score: 5, Informative · on Slashdot over IPv6

    try this link

  7. Not feasible without wide deployment of multicast by Arrgh · · Score: 3, Informative · on Can Internet Radio Survive?

    Part of what makes RF radio stations economical--and even occasionally profitable--is that the marginal cost of providing the broadcast service to an additional listener is essentially nil, modulo geographic saturation and transmitter power.

    Today's streaming media services, however, incur a high marginal cost per additional listener--cost scales linearly with the number of listeners. There have been several attempts (Akamai, RBN) to get listeners to use a "nearby" transmitter, but these only flatten the cost-per-additional-listener line a bit by saving money close to the originating transmitter.

    The Internet evolved a more bandwidth- and cost-efficient distribution model years ago in the form of multicast, but it was never widely implemented in enough of the places where it would have made a difference--backbones, routers, terminal servers, DSLAMs, cable companies, etc.

    The idea is that a multicast packet stream should have a very small bandwidth footprint for the most expensive parts of the trip from transmitter to the receivers, only needing to be duplicated at the last few legs of the trip, where receivers aren't on the same physical network.

    IOW, no matter how many of an ISP's customers are listening to a multicast stream, the ISP only has to transfer the packets from the expensive Internet once, and then make sure they get routed down the cheaper links to those customers who are listening.

    Now that NAT is becoming more and more widespread, the situation doesn't look good--but hopefully IPv6 will kill NAT, and improve the multicast situation by opening up a vastly larger range of multicast addresses, and therefore a larger maximum number of simultaneous multicast connections.

    Some fun links:

    An Introduction to IP Multicast Routing (from Google cache, the site seems to be down)

    Some stuff from Cisco

    RFC2375: IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments

    IPv6 Multicast Standards

  8. IPv6 and Japan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on What About IPv6? How Long Until Widespread Deployment?

    They did have the Global IPv6 Summit in Japan last december. They're also required by law to switch to IPv6. I forgot the year, but it should be within a decade.

  9. For those of you who don't know what IPv6 is by r.+ghaffari · · Score: 1 · on Stack-Hacker Itojun Talks About IPv6
    Here are some links that explains IPv6 more clearly that I ever will:

    http://www.ipv6.org/

    http://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng/html/ipng-main. html

    http://www.ipv6forum.com/

    http://www.bieringer.de/linux/IPv6/IPv6-HOWTO/IPv6 -HOWTO.html

    Unfortunately, ipv6.org is currently down.

    r. ghaffari
    (25/M/Baltimore, MD)

  10. Re:Must have a network to connect to by Higher+Authority · · Score: 1 · on Is A Public Wireless Internet Possible?

    It seems I remember something about either address allocation having to be free, or the actual transit over the network...I'm not sure which, and I can't find any information on it right now, but I thought either way, it'd be of particular interest with regards to (and possibly opposition of) your idea of micropayments for bandwidth and such.

    I'll try to find out some more info on this; anyone know much else about it?

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    I do, however, know for a fact that you're quite a bit more than wrong about the lack of services over the IPv6 network. They are plentiful, for the users and developers using the current testbed (aka the 6bone). DHIS is one of many free providers of IPv6 testing address allocation, Freenet6 is another. And there are numerous IPv6 capable sites, including FreeBSD's site, portions of Microsoft's site, NASA...

    If you check out the main IPv6 sites, such as the 6bone, IPv6.org, IPv6Forum, and a whole lot of others, you'll find the network is quite extensive. Work is being done quite a bit, and it's more than just talk.