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IPv6 Over Social Networks

Posted by timothy on from the doesn't-look-practical-for-all-circumstances dept.

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."

2 of 102 comments (clear)

  1. Re:IPv6 - the OS/2 of Networking. by Cajal · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  2. Re:Admins not adopting IPv6 by xZgf6xHx2uhoAj9D · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.