Re: Only 5x IPv4 ... WRONG! :)

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:01:48PM -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> Of course ifconfig will also happily take whatever mask you feed it in
> your choice of notation so it's not exactly a bronze age tool.
> >


        first - IPv6 isn't 5x IPv4, its only 4x... :)

        and the idea f "bronze-age" tools is generally appealing.

        I'm tempted to make the argument that when we are fulling
        using the IPv4 space, we make the general statement that the
        "Internet" is fully deployed.

        IPv4 == the Internet.

        IPv6 == the next big thing...  to borrow a phrase - the polyphonic-net


        IPv4 has many decades of work, refinement, and general ammalgamation
        into/with what many/most of us are comfortable with wrt business models.

        IPv6 - while it has just over a decade of work, still has a long way
        to go to fulfill its promise. For the oldtimers, remember that it took
        IP a couple of decades to "gel" at version 4.  Sure, we can (and in 
        some cases - MUST) cram the "Internet" model on IPv6, but that is a 
        genuine waste of opportunity.

        
        So ... can we let an IPv6-based "polyphonic-net" embrace, and subsume
        the old, last century Internet?  Or is that asking too much of the 
        sales/marketing droids?


--bill manning