Posted on 04/26/2010 10:57:26 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Not even the most starry-eyed dreamers back then envisioned this explosion of the IP network - or ANY network, for that matter.
And the funny thing about that -- is -- someone will be saying that about IPv6, when we run out of space there -- in "outer space" -- doncha know ... :-)
You always have to "grow into" these things... no matter how much "foresight" you want to try and apply to them... there's always the question regarding the current infrastructure...
IPv6 - an IP address for every dollar 0bama is spending.
Ahhh... so he’s going to put a chip and an IP address on every dollar bill to see what we do with them ... huh? LOL ...
This solution, or pretty much any other would be just as difficult as a transition to IPv6, so might as well go IPv6 anyway.
Even when there is no IPV4 (defined as running out of new IPV4 addrs) there still will be IPV4 (defined as existing addresses being accessible on the public internet). There will be all sorts of schemes of IPV4 inside of IPV6, and IPV6 inside of IPV4, etc. etc. So it will be even more of a Tower of Babel than it already is.
Put another way, there’s no “flip a switch day” when IPV4 is no longer routable in the internet.
I remember being dragged out of my Junior year math class and plunked down in front of the my high school’s brand new Apple II. They handed me the manual and told me to figure it out. Two weeks later, I was teaching Computer Science for the school.
By the next year, some kid in the Seventh Grade was kicking my butt. But they let me keep the class, because they could hardly turn it over to a 13-year-old!
From what I’ve heard, NAT has pretty much evaporated the need for IPv6. Plus, the security of hiding behind a completely different IP makes it (generally) more secure than each device having its own unique IP that’s broadcast for the world to see.
Plus, who’s looking forward to reading off IPv6 IPs....ugghh...
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