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Obama Highlights IPv6 Issue
alphadogg writes "The Obama Administration bills itself as the most tech-savvy political team ever, but until now it has ignored one of the biggest issues facing the Internet: the rapid depletion of IPv4 Internet addresses and the imminent need for carriers and content providers to adopt IPv6. Today, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will host a workshop on IPv6 that features high-profile executives from government, industry and Internet policymaking organizations. Some observers are hoping the Obama Administration will use the workshop to issue a deadline for all federal agencies to support IPv6 on their public-facing Web sites."
Can we at least all agree that NAT is evil, and destroys one of the nicest features of TCP/IP (and a free Internet): it creates a network of peers?
Weren't all addresses supposed to be gone by now? That's problem with doomsday predictions IPv4, warming, God, it never happens as scheduled and then people just ignore you next time you start predicting. If we were more temperate about our predictions, people wouldn't dismiss them as more of the same "sky-is-falling" crapola.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
Gee, I hope while they are at it, they can make sure they can track all the content, every citizen and device that get's "plugged" into the internet.
Hopefully, they are bringing in the vast collective knowledge of the **IA's to ensure that the rest of the world is represented as well.
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and you see this in all sorts of problems in life, from coworker's agendas, to politicians and their bombast:
you can win attention in the short term by describing a threat in worse language than it actually is
but by doing that, you pay the longterm cost of people just not trusting what you say anymore
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
tech-savvy != good leadership
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I suspect the point was that Obama won't be death for America, just like all the other presidents who have made mistakes did not result in the death of America.
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
I think it's disgusting to do that to any American President.
It has nothing to do with the "sanctity" of the office, but the fact that no American President comes even close to the atrocities that Hitler inflicted on other people. It's a bad analogy, one which indicates a ignorance at best and an outright denial of facts at worst.
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The original article actually points out the real problem that the headline misrepresents. The real problem is that the Obama administration is almost comically clueless about Internet engineering issues related to governance.
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Where's Jon Postel when you need him...
Join comcast then, they have high performance local 6to4 gateways.
The real issue is that IPv6 was horribly badly misconceived and misdesigned right from the start, in such a way that it was doomed to become the epic fail we know and love today. I am very skeptical that ipv6 can be fixed.
Have you got your LWN subscription yet?
I'm sure Fox News will bill it as Obama trying to take over the internet. Your IP address will have to face a death panel!
It's FAUX news - as in fake news.
I hate them. But I love Obama.
I hear this so very clever "faux news" pun a LOT, with the usual unreferenced claims of fake news.
To be honest, I don't watch TV news networks, and haven't for many years. What EXACTLY is the problem people have with Fox? Is it their political bent? Is there some factual complaint that couldn't also be leveled at CNN, MSNBC, etc by people from the other side?
If it's a lack of "objective journalism" that's the problem, then Fox hardly stands alone atop that dung heap.
Congratulations on the first post.
Very difficult to do these days.
First Post is easy. A GOOD first post is hard. This guy nailed it.
There is no "I disagree" mod for a reason. Flamebait, Troll, and Overrated are not substitutes.
Actually, the article is trolling, too, I think. The issue here is not whether Obama is personally interested in IPv6. As someone above (who got modded troll) mentioned, Obama, himself, probably knows very little about TCP/IP, IPv4, NAT, and IPv6. It's the NTIA that's running this workshop. Printing a headline that says 'Obama' is highlighting IPv6 is just begging to turn the conversation into a bunch of partisan bullshit re: 'hope and change', Obama's personal technical competency, etc. Looking at the thread, this is exactly what happened. And that's trolling (or maybe flamebait).
Then again, it seems like we've pretty much run the whole 'IPv4 addresses running out ZOMG' topic into the ground, too. I guess it's nice to see that the feds are approaching the issue. But there's not really any controversy in 'Federal Government Explores Adopting Updated Technology'. So we make it into a partisan political issue in order to provoke responses? Bleagh.
FEW nations fall quickly; especially democracies and large empires don't fall that quickly either.
It'll be gradual and involve most the population being at fault beforehand.
Obama could be the straw that breaks the camel's back; however, that back was arguably broken already and we are have been seeing a mirage. Obama could be the messenger of doom who is falsely blamed as well. Repair takes a lot of strain, we also may not be up to the task of going the right direction... Lots is possible but what is not possible is for us to return to the previous decade in just 4 years.... if EVER (1 in a million shot at best. you have to be clueless to think it can return to those days.)
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Why would you exclude Bush from "war and socialism"? Medicare part D is one of the largest expansion of entitlements ever enacted and by far the largest threat to long-term budget stability.
All the news companies are populated by lying sacks of shit (yes, even NPR). Why does FOX get singled out?
- Free Healthcare for All? Check.
- Free Retirement for the Elderly? Check.
- Free Housing/Food for the Poor? Check.
- Free School plus College for the People? Check.
- Not free, but government-subsidized "People's Wagons" for everyone, even the poor? Check.
Hitler and his Parliament of the 1930s looks socialist to me. In fact that was the key goal in Spain, Italy, and Germany: To bring corporations under Direct government control (i.e. strictly regulated), while providing lots of government-and-corporate-sponsored benefits to the workers. It was an extremely popular party platform.
FOX NEWS.com should be BANNED from television and internet. Have the Congress take it over and give us Truespeak.
While you and all your friends are raging against Fox news (and presumably swallowing all the pro-Democrat propaganda), the real powers that be are wetting themselves, knowing they have you exactly where they want you, caught up in an empty shouting match.
These TV shows are about entertainment, not about issues or anything else.
Interestingly, how would you rank the worst tyrant of the 20th century? Choices are Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Mao, or some other that I haven't mentioned or don't know about. If Hitler didn't have the Holocaust, I would probably put him down around the Saddam or Milosevich level. (Actually, looking at a list of genocide numbers, without the Holocaust part, Hitler would likely be at the Pol Pot level.)
It's not about the conservative bias. It that they lie, and are hypocrites, and bullies.
If ti was just a bias, that would suck but hey it's ok. When it's specific lies, promote false hoods, and fanning the flams of anger it impacts every one.
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I can understand hesitancy to deploy radical new ideas. However, I don't understand the hesitancy to deploy ideas that have been tested exhaustively, deployed, and used widely.
Because the stuff they already have also has been tested exhaustively, deployed, and used widely. And they don't have to hire more staff, or buy more equipment, to keep using it.
I'm always amazed when I meet people like you so ignorant of basic economics. Just, whenever you have a question like that, think to yourself: "what's in it for them?"
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