Prepare for IPv6

[rpm]

Prepare for IPv6

South African organisations and service providers must begin preparing for the shift towards Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) or risk facing significant operational and technical headaches when they're forced to implement the new protocol in two to three years time.

 

[telkomsuig]

another y2k hoax

 

[gboy]

when you do subnetting you see just how far a single ip can stretch internally.

 

[Sapphiron]

another y2k hoax

Was thinking the same thing

IT anylists (me being one) always need some "pending disaster" to blow out of proportion.

Why? It gets the article read.

IPv6 is going to be a gradual thing, pleople will migrate to it as they replace their systems, The only people who really need to get organized are the data centres and ISP's

I doubt most of us will be affected by it for the next few years.

EDIT:
not that the information about the details surrounding IPv6 are not appreciated, thanks for the article

 

[ambo]

another y2k hoax

All the new data centers being built will be unable to connect to the internet and all the amazing new fibre networks being laid will be worthless since ISPs will be unable to sell Internet access over them... How is that a hoax exactly?

The IPv4 address space exhaustion has been compared on many occasions to Y2K. It is unfortunately a somewhat more complicated beast:
With Y2K we knew for months (if not years) about the problem and knew the exact time (down to the second ) that it was going to occur. The IPv4 address exhaustion has a predicted date that changes daily and the extrapolation models can only take into account the historical trends. We have no idea what sort of 'panic buying' is going to occur in the last months leading to the final depletion.

 

[Amida]

I think IPv6 is the way forward and if we don't start now then we are again going to be left behind the rest of the world just like everything else in telecommunications.

 

[telkomsuig]

america is not adopting ipv6 enamsse until they do I don't see any rush in converting. Further the internet is not just going to stop working on a given day this is the biggest bull. Ipv4 will live with ipv6 for a very long time!

 

[ambo]

america is not adopting ipv6 enamsse until they do I don't see any rush in converting.

Using the US as a benchmark for your IPv6 migration is not a very wise idea. They are probably going to be the last ones hit by the IPv4 shortage and as a result - the last to migrate. In the mean time the regions (like the east and Africa) where there is major internet expansion will be crippled by the IPv4 depletion.

Further the internet is not just going to stop working on a given day this is the biggest bull.

Never said it would... but if you are not connected to this IPv4 Internet then what is the point?