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IPv6 Adoption Up 300 Percent Over 2 Years
Mark.J - ISPreview writes "The Number Resource Organization, which is made up of the five Regional Internet Registries, has revealed that the rate of new entrants into the IPv6 routing system has increased by 300% over the past two years. The news is important because IPv4 addresses (e.g. 123.23.56.98), which are assigned to your computer periodically, are running out. IPv6 addressing (e.g. 2ffe:1800:3525:3:200:f8ff:fe21:67cf) was invented as a longer and more secure replacement." IPv6 is still gaining ground slowly, particularly in the US.
Please, next time you feel the urge to post nonsensical drivel, think about it first. NAT + uPNP is NOT perfectly capable and compatible. It's a fucking ugly hack, causing numerous security issues or making them worse like the last DNS vulnerability. Also, if all the IPv4 ips would be sanely distributed and rationed, people calculated that we'd only gain a few months, a year more tops until the pool runs out completely.
Why charge for IPs when all you need is to switch to a different numbering, solving the problem properly? You do realise that sticking with IPv4 will be a huge economic burden on the long term, don't you?
But how can I argue with that! Everyone who's not a journalist knows it's not true, well except the little fringe lunatic organization holding together the actual allocations of IPv4 addresses in Europe called RIPE, or the similar organizations all around the world. In fact, "There is now consensus among Regional Internet Registries that final milestones of the exhaustion process will be met in 2010 or 2011, at the latest, and a policy process has started for the end-game and post-exhaustion era."
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We've been a year away from running out for 5 years.
So what happens if we don't upgrade?
It means the internet remains as is.
Sticking with IPv4 will be nore more of an 'economic burden' then it is right now.
IT will not be the end of the internet.
Considering IPv6 means the complete end of privacy and anonymity, I think dealing with IPv4 issues is worth the cost compared to being ably to put up effective borders on the internet. The wet dream of anyone who feels they need to control.
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What makes you think people are going to be able to run home servers? IPv6 wil make it easir for ISPOs to find and block home server. SO while you are technically true, it won't matter becasue you won't be allowed to access anything with it.
IPv6, as great as it could be, will be hijack by industry and used as an internet border and control.
Just looka t how corporations and countries are trying to do that now. It's only the weakness of IPv4 that makes it so damn hard.
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