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Free IPv6 Subnets Are Going Away
ar32h writes "The 6bone is going to be phased out soon.
This means all of us who have IP addresses or subnets beginning with 3ffe from tunnel brokers like Freenet6 are going to be sorry out of luck." According to the linked phaseout plan, "It is anticipated that under this phaseout plan the 6bone will cease to operate by July 1, 2006, with all 6bone prefixes fully reclaimed by the IANA," but there are a number of sub-deadlines along the way.
IPv6 was a bastard protocol from the start. Not only were promises about no-fragmentation broken, but the IPv6 'options' are 'chained' so every router has to re-assemble look at the options, act on the options, and then re-fragment the packet exactly as it was.
And that's not even half of the problems it has.
Don't hold your breath for everybody to implement IPv6, IETF is already planning the next generation of IP without (hopefully) all the problems.
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb572CCB9AE9DB03273snlbxq' |dc
Given that IPv4 space is no longer at risk of being exhausted, there is virtually no real incentive to switching to IPv6. The only one that exists right now is the "geek factor", a measure of "coolness" recognized only by other geeks (and then, most of those are now considering it to be boring).
Had the IPv6 proponents really wanted to get more people to switch to IPv6, they would have wised up and offered something substantial. Free IPv6 addresses in the 6bone that were never intended to be permanent simply brought out just a small limited response. But if they had offered real permanent addresses, maybe a lot more people would have responded.
Although IPv4 space is no longer at risk of running out, it does have limitations that prevent any substantial portable address space from being allocated to all who want it. IPv6 has that space. There is no excuse for not doing so. But the IPv6 people are trying to make using IPv6 hard by their absurd policies. They have no one to blame but themselves why so many are not migrating to IPv6.
I do have IPv4 space. For places potentially running only IPv6, there will be the IPv4 equivalency range of IPv6 which I can use. But I won't have any reason to deploy that until after there are a substantial number of IPv6-only locations. Of course, no one will want to have only IPv6 until enough reachability exists in IPv6. Chicken. Egg.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars