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:so how many hops are we from Kevin Bacon? (Score:3, Insightful)
YOU do realize that by implying that because a person uses a Microsoft product they are a complete and total idiot, YOU are causing 1000's of readers to infer that you're a giant douche?
Re:so how many hops are we from Kevin Bacon? (Score:5, Insightful)
You do realize that by saying tracert instead of traceroute you've just outed yourself as a complete and total idiot?
Since when does admitting to being a windows user amount to outing yourself as complete and total idiot? Especially as most *nix users are also windows users.
Re:Admins not adopting IPv6 (Score:5, Insightful)
How is it not as intuitive as IPv4?
Why do you have users using IP addresses? That's what DNS is for.
Re:The real joke is (Score:5, Insightful)
Moving from IPv4 is like moving from 32 bit to 64 (128 in this case).
You mean in that it's been around for years but most people still haven't switched and probably won't in the near future?
Yah, I guess it is like that.
This April Fool thing is starting to piss me off (Score:3, Insightful)
Serious, does every posting have to be a joke?
Re:Admins not adopting IPv6 (Score:3, Insightful)
forget the admins, its the home routers. For everyone who wants to adopt IPv6, there's a shitty cheap router that simply doesn't support it. Unfortunately, the fact that the internet still works is enough to justify not buying a new one (not that there are many about).
If my router supported it easily, and I could just get myself an IPv6 address, I'd be using it. As it is, it requires some hassle, so I don't. That applies to the millions of ignorant users out there who wouldn't know how to set themselves up with IPv6 too.
So until there's a critical mass of IPv6 capable routers, no ISP is going to bother with it, and so no router manufacturer is going to bother upgrading them. The only way I can see it working is if someone starts marketing IPv6-capable routers as somehow better/faster/newer/future proof, then the marketing war might just drive adoption. Either that or the need for many non-NATed IPs per user in the home (eg phones).
Re:This April Fool thing is starting to piss me of (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:ipv4.5? (Score:1, Insightful)
You might want to recheck your arithmetic ;) (hint: 2^16 isn't 512.)
Hex is a lot more compact, and easier to verify than decimal addresses. Ever tried to write a regex to match only valid ipv4 addresses?
And anyway, doing that doesn't give you backwards compatibility with anything - you still have to lengthen the IP header, meaning you'd have to have a transition anyway.