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What About IPv6? How Long Until Widespread Deployment?

Posted by Cliff on from the don't-hold-your-breath dept.

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?

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  1. Re:the bothersome part by estoll · · Score: 0, Troll

    Did I hear a niner in there?

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  2. Re:the bothersome part by geekoid · · Score: 1, Troll

    IF the only way to communicate to someone else on a computer is to shout down the hall, you got bigger problems.
    We could have a cntral database where everybody applies for a unique, easy to remember coputer name.
    You thoght re-selling domain names where big, this would be a huge money maker.

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  3. Re:the bothersome part by boopus · · Score: 1, Troll

    Hmm, seems like there's already a solution in place for this... I've been using DNS for years...

  4. Re:the bothersome part by tomstdenis · · Score: 1, Troll

    Hehehehehehehehehe

    Of course on internal networks you can simply use IPv4 style ips though... So at lan parties you can use 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 with ease.

    Tom

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  5. Re:America Doesn't Change Standards Easily by Angst+Badger · · Score: 1, Troll
    Heck, you are the only first-world nation that doesn't use metric, and that's easy to figure out.

    This got modded up as 'Insightful'? The vital difference is that IPv6 actually does something; the difference between the metric and the older system we inherited from the UK is just a matter of notational conventions.

    (The British hecklers in the audience may wish to remember that they are the only first-world nation without a written constitution, which is arguably more danger-prone than occasionally slamming an unmanned probe into Mars.) ;-)

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  6. Re:the bothersome part by rosie_bhjp · · Score: 0, Troll

    The Moderation of the above post signifies the cluelessnes of the moderator. If you don't understand a post, or dont "get it", that doesn't mean its a troll.

    Your pal,
    Rosie.

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  7. Re:Well, it's here already by mojo-raisin · · Score: 0, Troll

    if you drive, you might die.

    think about it.

  8. Re:Well, it's here already by jackb_guppy · · Score: 0, Troll

    So we all got to change becuase of some ones bad programming. That is luntic.

    Oh, do not fix the broken program because it working... just write a new program to give wrong information and another to correct the wrong output.

    There is not ONE need to give each person their own ip. Unless you plan to assign it to them at birth and replace all other ID. Can we talk about the 1940's now?