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?

Comments

Re:the bothersome part

[geekoid]

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.

Re:the bothersome part

[boopus]

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

Re:the bothersome part

[tomstdenis]

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

Re:America Doesn't Change Standards Easily

[Angst Badger]

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.) ;-)