Little Interest In Next-Gen Internet

Ant wrote in to mention a Computerworld article that is reporting on the slow acceptance of the IPv6 version of the internet. From the article: "Information Technology (IT) decision-makers, in U.S. businesses and government agencies, want better Internet security and easier network management. However, few see the next-generation Internet Protocol called IPv6 as helping them achieve their goals, according to a survey released Tuesday by Juniper Networks Inc."

Comments

There's no place like 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1

[ylikone]

just doesn't have the same ring to it.

Re:There's no place like ::1

[Gopal.V]

Learn to use and enjoy Zero compress in IPv6 :) ::1 would be the same as 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1

Did you hear about the guy who went to get a /32 IPv6 block and the ISP replies that they don't retail out single IPs.

Information Technology

[kevin_conaway]

Thanks for clarifying what IT meant. I've been lost on this site for YEARS and now I finally know what that acronym means. Life is good.

ivp6 is so not cool man

[GillBates0]

AOL is the way to go if we want to improve the internets!!!!1

all the cyber people need to support teh AOL in their awesome efforts to make the internets better for everybody.

can't believe you peeps havent seen the cool AOL comercials!!!!111
"want a better internet?"
"you belong to america online!!!"

Might be a good idea

[Tenebrious1]

"If studies like this aren't acted on ... then instead of having a quarter of all the world's ISPs clustered here, around Reston, you'll have a quarter of the world's ISPs clustered around Tokyo or Beijing. I don't know if that's what the U.S. government really wants."

Hmm... moving AOL to Tokyo or Beijing might not be a bad idea. Would be much more expensive to send out all those CDs to people here...

The best way to speed up adotion

[doublem]

First, you need to make it cheap and easy to migrate, and make it part of the OS. Want a new Windows machine? Fine. It'll connect to the Internet and Ipv6 transparently, and you won't see the difference.

Second, move all the porn sites to IP v6.

Actually, screw step 1. If you can manage step 2, and keep any new upstarts from taking over the vacated IP v4 porn market, then IP v6 will become the standard within a year. We'll all have a laugh over the contorted and convoluted arguments PHBs with little to no technology understanding will come up with to justify switching their corporate networks to IP v6.

IPv6 experiences since 2000

[puzzled]

I first implemented IPv6 on a Cisco 7120 with a single FreeBSD 4.0 box as a host behind it - this would have been some time in late 2000. The IPv6 link came from Viagenie and this lasted a few months before I got bored with it.

I tried again last year with a couple of cable modem attached Cisco 17xx and some tunnels from Hurricane Electric. I was at a point where I wanted to do a lot more with IPv6 to get ready for my CCIE exam. HE was relentlessly useless in getting me more than what their tunnel broker system provided so I gave up again.

I tried later last year with BTexact's tunnel broker service and some other routers. Made it run, then started moving offices and lost interest.

I'm at it again - BTexact because they've got the best tunnel broker web interface and they'll give multiple tunnels, Cisco 28xx here, Cisco 17xx at a playful customer's site, and one FreeBSD 5.4 host. My CCIE gets closer and closer so this time its gotta go - web server, DNS, going to put up six total tunnels, then press for a block larger than the default /64 that comes with each tunnel.

Looking at IPv6 from the outside it would appear that someone collected a bunch of people who got kicked out of IETF for mental instability, a number of disgruntled Novell employees who believed that IPX was a gift from an advanced space alien culture, and locked them all in a junior high gymnasium with a goodly supply of blotter acid and two boxes of twinkies. Its the only explanation we have for the results we see today ...

Re:Industry study say govt must spend billions...

[Random BedHead Ed]

I read that Alexis de Toqueville Institute study as well.

Re:Give me an easy upgrade path

[garcia]

Actually it's small mammals running around somewhere in England.

Young, petite, teens?

Re:Actually...

[ByteSlicer]

Off course once it's released, you'll start waiting for IPv8 (etc)...

Re:Duh

[stephenbooth]

Last I heard it wasn't so much that every person would have an IP address so much as everything you wear, carry or own would have one. Supposedly the idea is that your socks will be able to email your washing machine to get the microwave to remind you to wash them whilst the fridge will IM your PVR with a list of what's in it so it can identify and record cookery shows that use those ingredients, prioritised by how close to the use by date each ingredient is. Meanwhile the coffee maker will be contacting the local stores to get you the best prices for Kopi Luwak then putting a reminder in your GPS enabled PDA so that when you go near the store you get a message telling you to pop in and get some (and whilst you're in there pick up some milk, eggs and your mom's magazine reservations).

Stephen