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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."
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This protocol has been so touted, so advocated and so under adopted, that it reminds of the days of OS/2 being the next big thing.
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I was promised poniez. And a flying car. And electricity "too cheap to meter". And vacations on the Moon. And a Larger Penis. And a Whistling Yo-Yo. And Hot Chicks. And a raise. And sex next weekend if I'm Very Very Good and don't go to the bar with the guys. And a Red Ryder BB gun. And the Four Day Work Week. And fusion reactors in 10 years. And a lot of other stuff.
But mostly the poniez. And the flying car. That's all I want.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
This is great and all, but now we must find a way to implement the slashdot effect over IPoSN!
How is it not as intuitive as IPv4?
Why do you have users using IP addresses? That's what DNS is for.
Serious, does every posting have to be a joke?
After a minor shipping delay, flying cars have arrived for all. As of today, all major cities also feature moving pavements and weather control and commuter flights to the Moon will be commencing tomorrow.
Earth President Barack Obama welcomed the representatives of the Galactic Brotherhood to Washington, assuring them that the many wars on Earth were now to be conducted entirely by robots, though the robots would be carefully monitored and pulled out of battle and granted citizenship the moment they achieved sentience. He also offered the galactics free access to Google, with only the requirement for tasteful contextually-attuned text advertising to be imprinted on their DNA.
The reactionary forces of the twentieth-century United States finally conceded defeat and shut down the Five-Year Plan Tractor Plants of Detroit, where ridiculous oversized transport was bashed together by semi-literate peasants between fifths of vodka from the nerve gas factory next door, and the Five-Year Plan Software Plants of Redmond, where ridiculous oversized operating systems were bashed together by semi-numerate fresh graduates between fifths of Red Bull. The record and movie company back catalogues have been placed into the public domain for the preservation of human culture and the comic-book capitalists of Wall Street have been sent to calming, soothing, humanistic re-education facilities. "We'll teach them to love again," said Mr Obama.
Robot housecleaners are now universally available at quite reasonable prices. The robot companion for your child, designed to say "I LOVE YOU" while the child hits it repeatedly, was an early release for Christmas 2007. The new model features the voice of Justin Fletcher from CBeebies and is designed for parents to hit repeatedly.
Future innovations for the century include the rise of the Great Old Ones from their eternal sleep to take back the Earth and consume the souls of all humanity, first driving them slowly insane. The citizenry is being prepared for this eventuality using repeated broadcasts of In The Night Garden.
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forget the admins, its the home routers. For everyone who wants to adopt IPv6, there's a shitty cheap router that simply doesn't support it. Unfortunately, the fact that the internet still works is enough to justify not buying a new one (not that there are many about).
If my router supported it easily, and I could just get myself an IPv6 address, I'd be using it. As it is, it requires some hassle, so I don't. That applies to the millions of ignorant users out there who wouldn't know how to set themselves up with IPv6 too.
So until there's a critical mass of IPv6 capable routers, no ISP is going to bother with it, and so no router manufacturer is going to bother upgrading them. The only way I can see it working is if someone starts marketing IPv6-capable routers as somehow better/faster/newer/future proof, then the marketing war might just drive adoption. Either that or the need for many non-NATed IPs per user in the home (eg phones).
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...
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http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html
Was there something wrong with coming up with an addressing scheme that DIDN'T involve hex?
For example, go 64bit and use 16bit "hextets" -- 512.512.512.512. With that scheme you would have full backwards compatibility by using good old standard CIDR. If someone owned 1.255.255.255/8 today, with the switch they would still have that allotment, but we would now have 1.511.511.511/8 available as well. Am I missing something really obvious here?
For that matter, if we REALLY needed 128bit, go with either 32bit "somethingtets" -- 1024.1024.1024.1024...
Again, I would really like a network engineer / programmer to explain why this wouldn't work.
Who had the bright idea that we had to use hex for ipv6 AND have it not be backwards compatible.
From the people I talk to, the biggest reason they haven't gone ipv6 on their home networks is "because then I have to think in hex", with the secondary reason being "there is nothing available on ipv6 that isn't on ipv4 anyway".
Thanks,
-- Brian
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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.