Re: China Builds a Better Internet

["David Farber" <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <suresh () hserus net>
Subject: Re: [IP] China Builds a Better Internet
Date: 22nd September 2006
Time: 4:28:25 pm

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> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh () hserus net>
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> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:51:52 +0530
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> David Farber wrote:
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> > > From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> > >
> > > China Builds a Better Internet
> > >
> > > Americans have been hogging Internet addresses for decades, leaving
> > > late-comers like China to divvy up the few remaining slivers. But China
> > > is fighting back by vaulting to an addressing standard that could
> > > rewrite the rules of the Internet—and business innovation—for decades to
> > > come.
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> I do wish people would stop propagating that "MIT has more IP addresses
> than all of china" meme.
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> CNGI is not new and neither is ipv6.
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> ipv6.net.cn was registered in 2000, ipv6.org in 1998 and ipv6 itself
> dates back to 1994 or so.
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> However all the ideas about "an internet of devices" where every single
> toaster, microwave and garage door will have an IPv6 stack built into it
> is decades off .. they'll probably want to try the idea of making
> everything olympics related v6 enabled after a fashion though
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> In fact, funnily enough, v6 hasn't exactly caught on - even with v6 IP
> space around and available for the asking.  Ask your ISP for it, lots of
> ISPs offer it - or get it from a tunnel provider like sixxs.net or
> tunnelbroker.net .. or if you need a rather larger block of v6 addresses
> <- though a /48 has a huge number of IPs all by itself - ask APNIC,
> RIPE, ARIN etc - you'll get it. Without much trouble at all.
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> But does hotmail, or yahoo, have a v6 address?  Do their chinese
> equivalents like (say) sina.com, have v6 addresses?  Though v6 is -
> again - available for the asking, and just about every modern operating
> system from Windows XP on, has a ipv6 stack?
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> I'll leave you to draw more conclusions than the reporter will have
> drawn after listening to "next generation networking" hype after a great
> dinner of peking duck and sweet and sour pork and then typing out the
> article with a healthy amount of copy and paste from dozens of similar
> articles in mass media over the last few years.
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>         srs
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