If You Think You Can Ignore IPv6, Think Again

wiredmikey writes "Now that the last IPv4 address blocks have been allocated, it's expected to take several months for regional registries to consume all of their remaining regional IPv4 address pool. The IPv6 Forum, a group with the mission to educate and promote the new protocol, says that enabling IPv6 in all ICT environments is not the endgame, but is now a critical requirement for continuity in all Internet business and services. Experts believe that the move to IPv6 should be a board-level risk management concern, equivalent to the Y2K problem or Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. During the late 1990s, technology companies worldwide scoured their source code for places where critical algorithms assumed a two-digit date. This seemingly trivial software development issue was of global concern, so many companies made Y2K compliance a strategic initiative. The transition to IPv6 is of similar importance. If you think you can ignore IPv6, think again."

You will NOT take away or cause artificial demand

[h00manist]

for my damn IP numbers! I am not falling victim to this left-wing liberal conspiracy to artifially inflate the price of my IP numbers, the fuel of my business! There is no such thing as a global shorting of IP numbers, the scientific evidence is completely subjective and there is no hard evidence whatsoever, no measurements, of a global shorting of IP numbers . Everyone that needs one has an IP number, and there are plenty more. I myself have 192,168,000,023 IP numbers for use just here in my company. This in nothing but a left wing media conspiracy against the working people to take away our god-given constitutional right to IP numbers in black helicopters.

Re:ISP

[Lord Ender]

ISPs won't support it until customers demand it. This requires government action: use stimulus money to make free porno available to all over IPv6 only. And not just any porno: the kinkiest, highest-resolution, full-length nastiness the Feds can commission.

Your U-Verse box will have a v6 address within a week.

Simple solution

[TheSync]

I can double the number of IPv4 addressable machines.

UDP and TCP ports 1-512 will now be one machine, and ports 513 and higher will be another machine.

Re:ISP

[tqk]

It's not quite yet the time to retrofit IPv6 everywhere, but it is definitely time to build support into your new development requirements.

Just like y2k, if you coded software that used 2 digit date fields in 1995, you had only yourself to blame for needing to rush around in 1999.

And just like in y2k, after we get IPv6 everywhere and nothing blows up, we'll be blamed for running a con job just like in y2k. "Sheesh, nothing happened, and we spent all that money on getting you to fix a non-problem!"

I say, let's let it blow up this time.

Re:Simple solution

[Pi1grim]

Oh my god, did somebody just invent NAT?

Here's how to do it.

[falzer]

Facebook, 4chan, digg, slashdot, reddit, and redtube make their sites accessible by ipv6 only (and not through v4 to v6 tunnels.)
They take a hit in traffic for a little while, two weeks later, every ISP is giving out ipv6 addresses and every ancient router and pc is upgraded. :)