IPv6 is go for launch

[rpm]

Today, the 4th of February 2008, is going to be an important milestone in the history of the Internet. IANA's General Operations Manager - Barbara Roseman - made an announcement at the end of last year that there was going to be a major change in the DNS system that would allow the deployment of IPv6 on the Internet to begin in earnest.

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[HavocXphere]

I think its going to have a fairly large effect. No more NATs plus static addresses for everyone (hopefully).

 

[BobbyMac]

I think its going to have a fairly large effect. No more NATs plus static addresses for everyone (hopefully).

I seriously doubt this will spell the end of NATs. As for static addresses for everyone - probably not a good thing.

 

[Scooby_Doo]

lol, static addresses for everyone good luck to that, i would die without DHCP, what a mission to keep track of all those ip addresses.

 

[ambo]

lol, static addresses for everyone good luck to that, i would die without DHCP, what a mission to keep track of all those ip addresses.

Auto configuration of networks is not going to vanish with IPv6 - they have in fact developed a system called radv that is going to be even easier than DHCP.

The point however - is that there will be no shortage of addresses so you are unlikely to be reassigned addresses that have previously been used by other people. The auto configuration tools are going to be handing out the same addresses repeatedly and it will be AS GOOD as statically assigned IP addresses.

 

[EtienneK]

It's good that we're starting to plan for this, but it's still going to be quite some time before IPv6 will be the norm.

Every router, every server and every client will first have to support it. Good luck with that.

 

[EtienneK]

Oh and coupled with the fact that some companies are making massive amounts of money by selling blocks of IPv4 addresses, don't expect big business to start pushing IPv6 any time soon.

 

[ambo]

Oh and coupled with the fact that some companies are making massive amounts of money by selling blocks of IPv4 addresses

huh? where is this happening?

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Telkom = IPv4 (infrastructure can't handle IPv6)

Neotel = IPv6 and IPv4

 

[EtienneK]

huh? where is this happening?

Here's a list of companies owning address spaces: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space

003/8 - GE
004/8, 008/8, 046/8 - BBN
009/8 - IBM
015/8 - HP
016/8 - DEC
017/8 - Apple
018/8 - MIT
019/8 - Ford ...
045/8 - Interop Show Network

With IPv4 becoming so scarce, these IP blocks are worth enormous amounts of money.

 

[ambo]

With IPv4 becoming so scarce, these IP blocks are worth enormous amounts of money.

Your previous post implied that the IPv4 black market was already trading which I rather doubt is the case at this stage.

Most of those organization that you have listed would not be very interested in hording IPv4 addresses just to sell off to the highest bidder. A number of them are already in negotiations to surrender portions of their net-blocks back to the registries for redistribution to more needy candidates.

I am intrigued how you come to the conclusion that big businesses could benefit from delaying or stalling the deployment of IPv6.