Messages in this thread |  | | From | Bas Mevissen <> | Subject | Re: IPv6 and the "average user" | Date | Thu, 21 Nov 1996 12:17:30 +0100 (MET) |
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> > People will get bruised, but hopefully not too badly. We have to have > IPv6 because > > o There are not enough IPv4 addresses. Just to put all the cable > TV customers in the USA on couldnt be done. Abortions like dynamic > IP are directly due to this Or are dynamic IP's invented because there where not enough IPv4 addresses to give all users their own IP !
> > o The existing scheme doesnt allow enough empty address space to > make routing easier. Without that the peering points will simply > melt in a few years time, regardless of how much money is thrown > at the problem. > > There are lots of other potentially great things to come out of IPv6 but > the impact to the average net.human is likely to be one day that their > ISP says "Ok we now do IPv6", and if your PPP client can do IPv6 you'll > be able to talk to all the IPv6 sites too. Over time things will appear > that are v6 only until a lot of the net isnt useful via IPv4. People will > stick IPv4 only boxes behind v4/v6 masquerades or upgrade. That may finally > mean the death of win3.11 and sunos (pre solaris sunos)
MickeySoft is, IMHO, very pleased about IPv6: now they can force many users to give up win3.11 and other older software: they must use the software the MS updates to IPv6: Win9{5|6|7|8|9} and WinNT.
BTW: Although it is a very big pain in the ..... to upgrade to IPv6 for everyone, we can use it's benifits: encryption and compression, these will ,along with others, being implemented in IPv6, I hope ?
> > Alan > >
Bas.
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