[95888] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Mon Apr 9 00:15:03 2007
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 21:04:37 -0700
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: "J. Oquendo" <sil@infiltrated.net>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070408231534.GA39677@infiltrated.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
J. Oquendo wrote:
> "On Thursday, 29 March 2007, a Cisco Systems router, flying
> in low Earth Orbit onboard the UK-DMC satellite built by
> Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), was successfully
> configured by NASA Glenn Research Center to use IPsec and
> IPv6 technologies in space."
>
> http://www.dmcii.com/news.htm
>
> Its good to know that IPv6 is finally being used along
> with encryption! Albeit in outer space, maybe one day we
> could all catch up with this "out of this world"
> technology that people could now claim is "light years"
> ahead of us.
I'm looking forward to a future where pc104/isa bus based routers figure
prominently in the ip core!
>
