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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.
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How is it not as intuitive as IPv4?
Why do you have users using IP addresses? That's what DNS is for.
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.
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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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.