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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."

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  1. Re:so how many hops are we from Kevin Bacon? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    YOU do realize that by implying that because a person uses a Microsoft product they are a complete and total idiot, YOU are causing 1000's of readers to infer that you're a giant douche?

  2. Re:so how many hops are we from Kevin Bacon? by vux984 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You do realize that by saying tracert instead of traceroute you've just outed yourself as a complete and total idiot?

    Since when does admitting to being a windows user amount to outing yourself as complete and total idiot? Especially as most *nix users are also windows users.

  3. Re:Admins not adopting IPv6 by Cajal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How is it not as intuitive as IPv4?

    Why do you have users using IP addresses? That's what DNS is for.

  4. Re:The real joke is by eln · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Moving from IPv4 is like moving from 32 bit to 64 (128 in this case).

    You mean in that it's been around for years but most people still haven't switched and probably won't in the near future?

    Yah, I guess it is like that.

  5. Re:This April Fool thing is starting to piss me of by 16384 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For years it has been like this. Then suddenly one year there were no April fools stories on 1 apr that year. This 1 apr, all stories are Aprils fools... Some moderation would be nice. But hey, it's only one day...