Vint Cerf On Broadband, Wireless, IPV6 And More

Carnage4Life writes: "There's a very interesting interview on Upside with Vint Cerf ^[?] who is currently senior vice president for Internet architecture and technology at MCI Worldcom. In the article he discusses the problems facing the current specifications for wireless protocols, UUNet and how it will be adapted to face the future (maybe by becoming an optically switched network), his home wireless network, IPv6 ^[?] and his expectations of how broadband will change the Net. " Ya ever think what the world owes these guys? Wow.

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IPv6 is more than addressspace

[jd]

One of the reasons it ISN'T more widely deployed is that that is all it is perceived as being, by the PHB's with all the cash.

Usually, though, NAT and firewalling give you essentially the address space you want, with no extra deployment costs. Hence, the total lack of interest.

BUT, IPv6 also offers:

• Speed (simpler headers and simpler routing)
• Mobility (mobile IPv4 has relied on all stations involved having forwarding systems)
• Autoconfiguration (no more messing with DHCP or BOOTP configuration files)
• Security (IPSec is mandatory)
• Optimised Connections (anycasting allows you to locate the nearest active server of the type you want)
• Quality of Service (another mandatory feature)
• Multicasting (yet another mandatory feature)

I dunno about you, but I think ISPs that can get a feature list like that would be far more interested than if they're told they get more IP space to sell. There are only a finite number of customers in an area.