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IPV6 Conference June 24-27

Posted by timothy on from the ip-numbers-as-door-prizes dept.

John Sokol writes "IPv6 is the 'next-generation' protocol designed by the IETF to replace the current version Internet Protocol, IP Version 4 ('IPv4'). This years big conference on it will be in San Diego from June 24-27. See the North American Global IPV6 Summit site. I hear rumor DARPA will be making a big announcement there."

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  1. Re:June 24-27 by QuMa · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hmm? It's already been implemented, and I'm already using it for a lot of things. There isn't going to be a switchover day, whatever those spring clean emails might have claimed :-).

  2. Ipv6 deployment by Craig+Ringer · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The only thing holding me back from a wider deployment is the need to tunnel ipv6 through my ISP, who doesn't route it. Due the braindead pricing of broadband services in Australia, where we get byte-charged heavily, there are local free-traffic "internet exchanges" (http://www.waia.asn.au/) to get around the problem.

    If I have to make a tunnel outside my ISP, I get bytecharged even for traffic between work & home, for example, despite both being on WAIX.

    As a result, the practical utility of ipv6 for me is quite limited until the ISPs here grow brains.

    Craig Ringer