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What About IPv6? How Long Until Widespread Deployment?
Christopher Blood asks: "Over at the register, they talk about the EU adopting IPv6. So what about the USA? When do we get it?
IPv6 would solve some and DOS problems and we will need the extra address space. What's the holdup?" While IPv6 may be the cure for all of our IPv4 ills, upgrading the whole internet to the new technology isn't going to happen over night. What has been done to prepare for the jump, and what still needs to happen before it can become a reality?
A reward system needs to be enacted to entice the ISP's to provide unencumbered access to the 6-bone. ISP's that handle dial-up users can tunnel the ip4 traffic on behalf of their customers.
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The main reason we aren't seeing widespread IPV6 is that it's not backwards compatable wiht IPv4. This being the case we would essentially have to replace every server in the US to get IPv6 to work.
Other solutions like tunneling,translation and dual stack do exist. However all of these technologies(except dual stack) have limited capabilities.
Having a Dual Stack(one that supports both IPv4 and IPv6) seems to be the most obious solution for the transition. However, this still requires the replacement of servers accross the World.
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The problem could be solved very quickly for some time just by limiting the IP pools for some of the big U.S. universities. Some of them have more IP addresses than e.g. China.
Not a permanent sollution but...
Lars Bo Wassini
Only slightly off-topic.
...), and store the citizen's accounts. There would be no personal transit other than Segway (ha ha), bicycle, and sneakers. And it could all be run on IPv6. Every device in the home, every device on workplace, and every device in the 'big blue room' would be managed on a very fast, very stable, very redundant IPv6 network.
... no way man.
A friend of mine (ZettaMatrix) and I were in our usual "Wouldn't it be cool if..." mode the other night and came up with a rather interesting proposal.
If you could find roughly 35,000 volunteers who would be willing to spend no less than four years in something similar to a city wide 'Bio-Dome', we could learn a lot about our technology and where we need to go next. They would have to be willing to give up everything they've got to live in this place though.
A city the size of my town, powered by nuclear energy, and chalkful of all of today's coolest technologies. The only energy source would be nuclear electricity. Housing complexes (modern appartments only) would be wired with fiber, power, and plummed (water in, sewage out). There would be no copper or coax. The city would have a massive server to monitor all the automated mass transit systems (maglev, electic monorail, electric bus
Finding enough employement and generating an economy would be difficult, but I think it could be done. It could use the "Heaven's Gate" approach and use web design as its primary source of external income. Or technology consulting - because you know it'd be 75% geeks. "We're testing the future so you don't have to. Now give us some money!"
It would have to be a fully functioning city - almost completely independant of outside resources. It would have to supply the majority of its own food, and deal with the majority of its own waste. SimCity 3000 - full scale.
The issue would be getting it all started. I'd be one of the first to sign up, as long as it's not named after what I'm sure would be one of the biggest funding companies. "The Microsoft City"
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