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Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008
From: Brad Knowles <brad () stop mail-abuse org>
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 00:37:10 +0200
At 12:14 PM +0200 2005-07-01, Andre Oppermann wrote:
Huh, Europe is moving to IPv6? I must have been asleep at all industry meeting in the past few month and years...
From what I've seen at the RIPE meetings, Europe is definitely moving towards IPv6. Maybe not as fast as some parts in Asia, but it's definitely moving that way. Moreover, it's moving towards IPv6 much faster than the US.
All the other stuff and the different address scopes are not only impractical but confuse the average consumer and MCSE admin to no end (and those are the people that have to deal with it all the time).
IPv6 has its problems, yes. There are implementation issues that confuse programmers at Sun working on Solaris, and confuse network application programmers with a hell of a lot of experience under their belt. If you can't talk directly to Jinmei himself, you're likely to be well and truly screwed.
But just because IPv6 has problems doesn't mean that it doesn't solve the fundamental address space problem in IPv4, and doesn't mean that it is anything less than the best available alternative.
-- Brad Knowles, <brad () stop mail-abuse org> "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 SAGE member since 1995. See <http://www.sage.org/> for more info.
Current thread:
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Andre Oppermann (Jul 01)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Brad Knowles (Jul 03)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Andre Oppermann (Jul 04)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Rob Evans (Jul 04)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Brad Knowles (Jul 04)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jul 04)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 04)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Andre Oppermann (Jul 04)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Carlos Friacas (Jul 01)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Randy Bush (Jul 01)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Jeroen Massar (Jul 01)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Christopher L. Morrow (Jul 01)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 David Meyer (Jul 01)
(Thread continues...)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Brad Knowles (Jul 03)