[184303] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Thu Oct 1 20:01:36 2015
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To: Matthew Newton <mcn4@leicester.ac.uk>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 02 Oct 2015 00:26:13 +0100."
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Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 10:01:25 +1000
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In message <20151001232613.GD123100@rootmail.cc.le.ac.uk>, Matthew Newton writes:
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 10:42:57PM +0000, Todd Underwood wrote:
> > it's just a new addressing protocol that happens to not work with the rest
> > of the internet. it's unfortunate that we made that mistake, but i guess
> > we're stuck with that now (i wish i could say something about lessons
> > learned but i don't think any one of us has learned a lesson yet).
>
> Would be really interesting to know how you would propose
> squeezing 128 bits of address data into a 32 bit field so that we
> could all continue to use IPv4 with more addresses than it's has
> available to save having to move to this new incompatible format.
>
> :-)
>
> Matthew
Additionally it is now a OLD addressing protocol. We are about to
see young adults that have never lived in a world without IPv6. It
may not have been universally available when they were born but it
was available. There are definitely school leavers that have never
lived in a world where IPv6 did not exist. My daughter will be one
of them next year when she finishes year 12. IPv6 is 7 months older
than she is.
Some of us have been running IPv6 in production for over a decade
now and developing products that support IPv6 even longer.
We have had 17 years to build up a universal IPv6 network. It
should have been done by now.
Mark
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>
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