Dept. of Defense IPv6 Interoperabilty Test Begins

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday October 22, 2003 @08:01AM from the let's-get-it-on dept.

securitas writes "The Department of Defense has launched Phase I of its delayed IPv6 interoperability test (mirror) in a six-month project dubbed Moonv6. It is the largest North American IPv6 test ever and its goal is to evaluate IPv6 for 'network-centric military operations.' Phase II was originally scheduled to begin in January 2004 but may be delayed due to the late start of the current test. 'IPv4 addresses are 32 bits long, enough for around 4 billion unique addresses.' In contrast, the IPv6 address length is '128 bits, or 340 billion billion billion billion unique addresses.' Experts hope this will solve a predicted IP address shortage as more devices are created to use the Internet."

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Re:Billion billion billion billion billion billion by Short+Circuit · 2003-10-22 08:06 · Score: 1, Offtopic

It's a lot easier for the average person to understand than saying "340 septillion" or some such.

I don't even know what the proper name is for the number specified.

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more IPs, less domains... by chmod_localhost · 2003-10-22 08:14 · Score: 1, Offtopic

With IPv6 on the verge of being implemented, how will this affect domain names? There will be a plethora of IPs but less and less usable domain names to bind to. Unless of course people want to start using stuff like y4h00.com! or 47t4v15t4.com; registering unused domains for comerical purposes is a detriment to the world wide web, and also, forces developing groups to use awkward domain names.