X Might Be Ready For IPV6

makapuf writes "According to linuxtoday, the X Consortium has published enhancement proposals to let X and IPV6 interoperate. This is surely a relief for the masses here that longed for X support for IPV6. Or the contrary? The proposal can be found here."

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IPv6 is just a backbone technology

[coupland]

My company keeps putting this on our technology "radar" and I keep having to yoink it. Fact is that IPv6 provides sufficient addresses that every current registered IPv4 address could get an entire IPv4 allocation of addresses without there being a single conflict. Basically, what this means is that if every single valid IP address in the world was converted to a NAT router you could continue to use IPv4 on all your corporate networks and only hubs, routers, and firewalls would need IPv6 addresses. Sure security could be an issue but remember the IPv4 systems are all on corporate networks behind firewalls. Someone please refute this, but I don't understand why IPv6 would ever catch on as anything but a backbone protocol...

Re:And I was just thinking

[Daniel Phillips]

"The only thing holding me back on IPv6 was X. Well, that's solved. IPv6 here I come!!!"

Well put. I have to admit, I'm one of those who got sucked in by the notion that if it has a higher "v" it must be better. Well, that ended today when I did some research and found out how horribly botched the whole IPv6 thing has been from the start, and at this point, I really think it's a lost cause. It would be better to start over again, on a new sensible extension to IPv4.

For starters, it's essential that the old addressing scheme be a straightforward subset of the new one. You have to be able to connect to google and Aunt Mary's homepage from your spiffy new setup. It would also be awfully darn nice if the new scheme resembled the old one as much as possible. What the heck was the idea of making it 128 bits, so no human can deal with the raw numbers? Simply grafting on another 8 bit section boosts it to a trillian addresses. THAT'S PLENTY! You'd still have a hope of being able to deal with the raw number when you have to.

And we DON'T NEED TO BE ABLE TO ADDRESS EVERY THUMBTACK ON THE PLANET. Whowever dreamed up IPv6 needs to be put in a nice padded cell where they can't hurt themselves.

As far as taking over the internet goes, it's all over but assigning the blame.

Somebody with too many moderator points on their hands modded down the whole thread, regardless of the accuracy of technical comment. That's, in a word, disgusting