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IPv6 Over Social Networks
An anonymous reader writes "A new RFC has been published this morning to significantly speed the deployment of IPv6. With IPv6 over Social Network (IPoSN), '[e]very user is a router with at least one loopback interface,' and 'Every friend or connection between users will be used as a point-to-point link.' It is noted that latency on the network can be very high, though."
IPv6 is being deployed. For example, this shows the growth in the IPv6 routing table size during 2008: http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2009-03/fig7.jpg
You can also check out http://sixy.ch/ for a list of IPv6-accessible web sites. It's growing weekly.
Google has launched their IPv6 trusted tester program, making many of their services reachable over IPv6.
It saves extra typing
I just use mtr in the first place.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=59502659200
The home router on IPv6 is always always always at ff02::2. It is not sometimes 192.168.0.1 or sometimes 192.168.1.1 or sometimes 10.0.0.1 or sometimes something else entirely. It is ALWAYS ff02::2. Period. No exceptions. If it is not, it is not IPv6.
Because hex is a better, EASIER representation of the binary that actually encodes the address. Ever tried to use the 192.168.0.0/8 notation? Did you notice how it's really confusing with decimal notation?
Frankly, if you can't wrap your head around hex then you shouldn't be using IP addresses. It's called DNS, learn it and love it.
Additionally, it is (sort of) backwards compatible (as much as it can be, without neutering it)- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#Transition_mechanisms
"As an exception to standard IPv6 addresses notation, IPv4 mapped addresses are commonly represented with their last 32 bits written in the customary dot-decimal notation of IPv4, appended to the standard IPv6 notation of the leading bits, e.g., ::ffff:c000:280 could be written as ::ffff:192.0.2.128."