U.S. DoD Commits To IPv6

babaloo writes "According to this article the U.S. Defense Department wants to move it's entire network to IPv6 by the year 2008. Will this be what pushes at least U.S. based companies and providers to actually convert over?" It's definitely a shot in the arm that IPv6 needs. This seemed to be more of a priority back when NAT was much less prevalent, but it seems we'll eventually find ourselves on IPv6, even if we drag our feet there.

Comments

An IP address for....

[ciroknight]

.....every second until the day IPv8 goes into effect, not to mention every person alive, every toaster making toast, every toilet still flushing, and every bullet fired. Maybe this is why the DoD wants IPv6... No not for toilets, internet enabled bullets!!

Re:An IP address for....

[Soko]

Clippy: It looks like you're trying to kill Saddam Hussien. Do you want an IP address assigned to each of your bullets so we can track the kill?

[yes] [no] [sod off before I shoot you, ya nosy paperclip!]

Soko

Standard

[RobPiano]

Its pretty much a fact that most internet innovations are due to military and pornography pushing early use. IPv6 is definitly going to happen now.

See history of the internet and streaming media...

Rob :)

Heavy Sigh

[mofochickamo]

IPv6 will allow an expansion from the Internet's current limitation of 4 billion addresses (to a new limit of 380,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0, which is a number so great it could supply each person living today with more than 4 billion addresses each).

Too bad I have to type http://132.122.21.123.155.135.132.152.132.122.221. 123.15.23.32.52 to get to my computer that I don't have a domain name for.

Heh

[egg troll]

IPV6 is the Hurd of networking protocols!

Re:Heh

[eht]

Not really, IPv6 is actually useful.

Damnit! (In the spirit of dupes)

[teamhasnoi]

I was promised flying cars, why aren't they working on the flying cars?

IPv6 sounds great but I see that we will need more TLDs and a domain name will be absolutely necessary.

Frickin' Rainman will be the only one able to remember xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.

At least the giant corporations that are our new overlords will have to spend some serious $$$ to cover all the new 'name.new tld'. Perhaps after all this is done, they can work on flying cars. 'cause we are like 50+ years behind the times here, people.

But all that has to take a back seat to hard-to-remember IPv6.

Here's a plan, why don't we just take the internet away from all the AOLers, the Flash greeting card senders, the 'Great Story! Read this LOLRFLOLRLOL!!!!'ers, Zone Bejewled players and the cheaters at Counter Strike and we'll have enough IPs for all of the elitist bastards that are going to make my toaster talk to me.

Tell you what. I will trade all my IPs (192.168.x.x) for a friggin' flying car.

Let's make it happen. I'll even have a bumper sticker, "IPv6, but my doctor says I'll be fine!" with a smiley!

Gimme my flying car.

Re:Chicken and egg

[Anonymous Coward]

In fact, why isn't Slashdot an IPv6 enabled site?

Because we are all hypocrits.

An IBM Rep. at some conference once..

[Radix42]

...was telling the audience (mostly non-technical) about IPv6.

He mentioned how many addresses, and then asked if anyone knew what that meant.

He said that it would mean there would be enough for every frickin appliance, and it could run Java on it, and did anyone know what THAT meant?

Of course no one was supposed to have any answers, it was almost all PHBs there (I got dragged along to man a cursed booth).

So I raised my hand and said "So you can get up in the morning and reboot your toaster?"

EVERYONE burst out laughing!