IPv6 Over Social Networks 102
An anonymous reader writes "A new RFC has been published this morning to significantly speed the deployment of IPv6. With IPv6 over Social Network (IPoSN), '[e]very user is a router with at least one loopback interface,' and 'Every friend or connection between users will be used as a point-to-point link.' It is noted that latency on the network can be very high, though."
Re:IPv6 - the OS/2 of Networking. (Score:5, Informative)
IPv6 is being deployed. For example, this shows the growth in the IPv6 routing table size during 2008: http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2009-03/fig7.jpg [potaroo.net]
You can also check out http://sixy.ch/ [sixy.ch] for a list of IPv6-accessible web sites. It's growing weekly.
Google has launched their IPv6 trusted tester program, making many of their services reachable over IPv6.
Re:so how many hops are we from Kevin Bacon? (Score:3, Informative)
It saves extra typing
I just use mtr in the first place.
April Fools but with real implementation (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=59502659200 [facebook.com]
Re:Admins not adopting IPv6 (Score:5, Informative)
What was true in 2002... (Score:1, Informative)
"You find that you can't reach the CNN servers or the Google servers or your company's web servers."
not anymore completely true. try ipv6.google.com.
"every administrator of a client on a public IPv4 address---has to go to extra effort to acquire and enable a public IPv6 address."
every IPv4 address gets a /48 6to4 IPv6 prefix. (putting the discussion of 6to4 itself aside).
This will likely get you the v6 connectivity in half a day.
Though of course it's not the way to go for a large site. But hey, the "extra effort" does not involve the rocket science. Talk to your ISP.
"Wake up, folks: The ``combined v4/v6 network'' is a bad joke."
fire up the wireshark on your network which has hosts running Vista (Or try Win7 beta which there are some positive comments about ?) or a reasonably recent Linux distro (couple years?) or if you want to do it with style, a Mac. :)
"ping6 -I FF02::1".
Once I configured the router - Vista, Ubuntu, and the wife's Mac I did not need to touch at all to get the IPv6 connectivity. Can't say about Win7, I have a luxury of using *nix exclusively @work and @home for the past 5+ years - Vista was just an entertainment experiment as it came preinstalled with a new laptop I am using now under Linux.
"If you want IPv6 to succeed as a global network, you have to figure out how to make an IPv6 address just as useful as an IPv4 address."
There are already applications that are IPv6-only by nature. 6lowpan, for example. There's no "4lowpan", it's IPv6-only. There are others.
Though I respect djb for his skills, I think there are some updates that need to be done to the text.
-- AC that did not want to make an extra effort to register due to 1 message in years posting rate.
Re:ipv4.5? (Score:2, Informative)
Because hex is a better, EASIER representation of the binary that actually encodes the address. Ever tried to use the 192.168.0.0/8 notation? Did you notice how it's really confusing with decimal notation?
Frankly, if you can't wrap your head around hex then you shouldn't be using IP addresses. It's called DNS, learn it and love it.
Additionally, it is (sort of) backwards compatible (as much as it can be, without neutering it)- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#Transition_mechanisms
"As an exception to standard IPv6 addresses notation, IPv4 mapped addresses are commonly represented with their last 32 bits written in the customary dot-decimal notation of IPv4, appended to the standard IPv6 notation of the leading bits, e.g., ::ffff:c000:280 could be written as ::ffff:192.0.2.128."