What About IPv6? How Long Until Widespread Deployment?

Christopher Blood asks: "Over at the register, they talk about the EU adopting IPv6. So what about the USA? When do we get it? IPv6 would solve some and DOS problems and we will need the extra address space. What's the holdup?" While IPv6 may be the cure for all of our IPv4 ills, upgrading the whole internet to the new technology isn't going to happen over night. What has been done to prepare for the jump, and what still needs to happen before it can become a reality?

the bothersome part

[nukey56]

IPv6 will fix a lot of problems, but one nasty side effect is that we're going to end up with addresses that look like 3ffe:400:34:fd01::1, instead of the easily memorizable four octets. When that day comes, it's going to be a lot harder to shout down the IP of the game server you're playing on down the hall.

"Oh, I'm on three-f-f-e-four,four-zero-zero,three-four,f-d-zer o-one,not(?),one. What's taking you so long?!?"

In other news...

[Flarg!]

A group of developers are working diligently on a new, improved IP stack. They are going to release it open source, and they will call it IP Freely.

Heheh

IPv6 will become the standard...

[popular]

as soon as we USians switch to the metric system.

Re:Newbie question..

[Codifex Maximus]

> For _most_ network-aware applications, the only
> thing different is the address format. Once you
> have the connected socket, the rest of the network
> code should remain unchanged.

So, essentially what you're saying is: After you get past all the things that are different then the rest is the same?

Ok, I'll buy that.

Don't hold your breath

[MeowMeow Jones]

Most of the people I know haven't even upgraded to IPv5 yet!

Come on people, it's 2002!

America Doesn't Change Standards Easily

[puppetman]

Heck, you are the only first-world nation that doesn't use metric, and that's easy to figure out.

Yup, a ball and chain slowing down progress....

Re:Well, it's here already

[Slak]

As Homer J. Simpson says, "Here's to alcohol, the cause of and solution to all the world's problems"!

What About IPv6?

[t_allardyce]

How Long Until Widespread Deployment?

About 15 years.

After the introduction of the SSSCA in 2003, Microsoft dominated the US OS market. While other countries switched to IPv6, America was forced to use the proprietary protocal built into windows (thanks to auto-updates) which included advanced DRM, IP tracking and P2P restrictions - as a standard client, your computer could only connect to a 'server' i.e a Windows machine running Windows Server Edition with a valid federal license. The internet was effectively split in 2 - USA, and the rest of the world (troll: this didn't matter as most US citizens didn't know about the 'rest of the world' lol :)

It wasn't until the great Microsoft witch hunt of 2017, when 4000 Microsoft employees where burnt at the stake after the SSSCA was lifted (well, not lifted per say, actually, someone just blew-up congress)

Re:Well, it's here already

[invenustus]

I'm not looking forward to that day. If my computer gets 0wned, I might lose my saved email. If my toaster gets 0wned, I might lose my house. Think about it.

Re:When?

[Cardhore]

That's because China only needs on IP for its firewall.

I dont think MS will have a problem

[xiaix]

As other posters have pointed out, BSD has it...microsoft probably just has not come up with a proper 'embrace and extend' logistic for it... (yet)

Re:America Doesn't Change Standards Easily

[Arandir]

The US hasn't switched to metric for a very simple reason: those of us living here, regardless of political affiliation, have a very strong individualistic streak. We don't just go change a system just because someone bigger than us tells us to. We spent a decade in the process of conversion and in the end we decided we didn't want the hassle.

The metric system is still taught in schools, still used in industry, and still available on every milk carton from New York to San Fransisco. But we prefer the English system. We're individualists and that's our choice. Just because it isn't your choice is completely irrelevant.

Oh, by the way, we've been using metric currency since day one, far sooner than most other countries did.

How to make the world convert to IPv6 real fast!

[Skapare]

Offer free pr0n on IPv6 only servers.