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Feds Say They're Ready For Monday's IPv6 Deadline
netbuzz writes "By all indications and against all odds, it appears as though most, if not all, federal agencies will have met the mandate issued back in 2005 that their network backbones become capable of passing IPv6 packets by June 30, 2008. NetworkWorld quotes Pete Tseronis, chair of the IPv6 working group of the Federal CIO Council, saying, 'I have not heard of anybody who is not going to make the IPv6 deadline.' Those involved are calling this a significant milestone in what has been an extensive effort to bring IPv6 into widespread deployment."
Being that IPv6 has been around for over a decade, meaning most legacy hardware has been replaced by then that used IPv4 only as well many systems even ones older then 10 years old that support TCP/IP are often new enough to get a software patch for IPv6 and what is left are so old and legacy that they are not available on the internet or [..]
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How about we dump IPv6 and work on a sane evolution of the internet protocol ?
I seriously ask the question.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it is my understanding that IPv6 adresses are not a superset of IPv4 ones.
That means, that absolutely no current internet site is reachable by IPv6.
Every site, every PC connected to the net today has to be modified in order to be reachable through IPv6.
Win16 was extended with Win32 and then with Win64.
But you can still run Win16 program on windows OS.
An Intel or AMD CPU can still execute early 8086 code.
You don't succeed by cutting of the work of the whole world has been doing for decades and forcing a total rewrite, just because you feel your new engineered standard is so much better.
Please someone explain to me that I have deeply misunderstood IPv6, because I can't understand this case of engineer/developer hubris of not expanding the current internet has we know it and forcing a complete 'rewrite'.
IPv6 address should be a superset of IPv4 ones.
(or example : 1.2.3.4 is IPv4, 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8 would be IPvX. you type the former in IPvX, it gets padded to 1.2.3.4.0.0.0.0 and still works).
I fail to understand why it isn't so.
NAT is good for home and businesses as you don't each system to it's own out side IP and ISP like COMCRAP would love to make you pay $5+ per pc for a IP.