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Comcast Activates IPv6 Trial Users

Posted by timothy on from the hop-aboard-the-six-train dept.

Spacecase writes "Comcast announced the first group of trial users have been activated on their IPv6 Native Dual Stack solution. Considering the recent news about IPv4 addresses becoming scarce, this looks to be one of the better solutions to get out of the IPv4 problems."

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  1. This is ridiculous by ugen · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Each user has been delegated a /64 block of approximately 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 (18 quintillion) unique IPv6 addresses. "

    So, effectively, they just shortened an IPv6 address to 64 bit - and allocation haven't even started yet in earnest.
    This is the problem with people. Even technical people (and moreover - everyone else) will waste any resource (including artificial resource) until there is scarcity regulated by monetary means. If that's the way IPv6 will be assigned - /64 to an individual user, /32 to a corporation, /12 to interplanetary internet or whatever other cooky idea there is - these addresses will run out in a jiffy. And then we'll be trading in these and IPv4 just the same.