[ShadowAce]

[roaddog727]

IPv6 is a mind-bending concatenation of Hex.

DOD continues to delay it’s full deployment.

Argh

[Haiku Guy]

The machines will become self aware, and decide our fate in a nanosecond...

[hoosier hick]

OH NO!!! IT’S WORSE THAN Y2K!!!!

hh

[ReneeLynn]

Why didn’t they just start out with IPv6?

[Star Traveler]

Basically IPv4 addresses run out when they run out ... LOL ... that’s what they’re saying.

They could have a better strategy, like assigning (i.e., “fixing”) a time when no one would be given IPv4 addresses (make it a “date certain”) — and then keeping whatever number of IPv4 addresses they had, in reserve for “whatever” in the future.

[COBOL2Java]

Let me be the first to say that Obama will declare he inherited this predicament...

[TChris]

The Powers That Be need to exercise something like Eminent Domain over IPv4. There are far too many holders of larger address space than their internet presence will ever justify.

My previous employer had legal, routable addresses for every device on our network for years. A lot of network admins must hold them for prestige or sheer cluelessness.

IPv4 + assigning network blocks through ISPs only + NAT and the world is fine. Take all the rest of the unused/misused address space and there is no problem.

[lormand]

Here is what a valid IPv6 address looks like in a browser session....

http://[2002:ac1a:143:0:2e0:dbff:dead:5b18]/

Yes, brackets are needed. Pretty nasty eh?

[ml/nj]

If folks are smart they will adopt the suggestion I made in a letter the NY Times published regarding phone numbers. Then we were running out of seven-digit phone numbers. What did happen is that we changed most people's area codes and in many places we now have to dial all ten digits of a person's number, even if they live next door. I would have gone to eight digit phone numbers. All existing numbers would have had a zero added to them. Equipment could have been programmed to automatically dial the trailing zero if people chose to leave it off; and everyone would have known what the phone numbers they knew were changed to if they had to dial eight numbers.

The same thing can be done with IPv4 addresses. Just add a 00-00 to all the existing IPv4 addresses. Computers are using these addresses anyway so it shouldn't be too hard for them to recognize that only four IDs are being given in an address and add the two zero IDs wherever they are needed.

ML/NJ

[NVDave]

Cue the guy rubbing his brow, saying “Oh geez, not this (*&*& again!”

We were hearing this sort of stuff at cisco in 1995/1996. We came up with NAT. Then the IETF came up with non-routed network spaces.

Every two years, there’s been another story just like this one. Somehow, the v4 address space continues to hold up, just fine.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

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.

[Future Snake Eater]

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...