Why You Shouldn't Worry About IPv6 Just Yet

nk497 writes "While it's definitely time to start thinking about IPv6, it's not time for most to move up to it, argues Steve Cassidy, saying most can turn it off in Windows 7 without causing any trouble. Many network experts argue we're nearing network armageddon, but they've been saying that for years.'This all started when Tony Blair was elected. The first time. Yep, that's how long IPv6 has been around, and it's quite a few weeks ago now.' He says smart engineering has avoided many of the problems. 'Is there an IPv6 "killer app" yet for smaller networks? No. Is there any reason based on security or ease of management — unless you're running a 100,000-seat network or a national-level ISP — for you to move up to it? No. Should you start to do a bit of reading about it? That's about the stage we're truly at, and the answer to that one is: yes,' he says."

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Re:I have read it...

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Anonymity is lost pretty quickly with IPv6

RFC 3041 dated January freaking 2001, assuming you're talking about using MAC addresses in the ipv6 address. Frankly I feel this is paranoia combined with ignorance of current ISP logging technology, in other words you don't have anonymity with ipv4 either.

along with ISPs seeing how many systems you have running on their network

Rates somewhere between 1) who cares 2) See RFC 3041 3) News to me that proxy servers are impossible on ipv6

exposes systems to OS flaws.

I suppose there are / will be bugs in v6 that would not happen in v4.

The logic in fact seems to be nothing but a really big switched network.

Thank god. Die NAT die! Can't happen soon enough. Some people will still want stateful "one way" firewalls. No problemo.

In short, I don't like what IPv6 gives us over what we lose with IPv4.

Given your list of misconceptions and misinformation, I'm not surprised.