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I remember talking in mid 99 about ipv6, while I was at a web company. Immediately on seeing it I said "this is crazy, and isn't going to take off". "Why not?
by mgkimsal 5y ago
I remember talking in mid 99 about ipv6, while I was at a web company. Immediately on seeing it I said "this is crazy, and isn't going to take off". "Why not?" I got from some of the network folks there.
My response then is mostly as it is now - it's just too confusing to read and write. The UIs - even at the time - telling people to put in a dotted quad - were... manageable. 4 is an easy number to understand. Numbers only is easy to understand.
I still maintain that had some intermedia come out adding 2 (or possibly 4) more spaces and we transitioned from
187.43.250.198 to 0.0.187.43.250.198, and defaulted most UIs to just prefixing with the 0.0 then grew from there, we'd have had much faster adoption, and still given ourselves 64k 4 billion address spaces.
But... I'm not a network technician, nor am I on the committees... I'm just someone who's had to live with the last 20 years of "ipv6 is coming, we're running out of ipv4 addresses!!" and... the last 5-10 years of trying to mess around with ipv6 and realizing it's still mostly out of my control (home ISPs, ime, do not, support it still).
tldr, I never expected ipv6 to be adopted quickly. I'm surprised it's made it this far.
- rjsw 5y agoI have had native IPv6 at home for over 10 years.
- mgkimsal 5y agoour regional TWC didn't offer it, and our local spectrum doesn't offer it for residential. I can get it for our office now, and might, but my own desire to experiment/learn isn't there, and no one else in the office here is asking for it right now.
- icedchai 5y agoI've been working with IPv4 since 1993, back when getting a SLIP or PPP connection was uncommon. I set up my first IPv6 tunnel back in 2007. When properly configured, IPv6 is no more difficult to set up than a IPv4 connection with DHCP: It just works. It's actually simpler than IPv4 in many respects. For example, prefix delegation: My router is getting an IPv6 /56 block from my ISP using DHCPv6. It is then handing out /64 blocks of on several different subnets with minor configuration. The average user doesn't care about IP addresses. They're using DNS.
- _wldu 5y agoThat's why we have the DNS. People know names, not numbers. Use AAAA records.
- Melkman 5y agoToday people don't even remember DNS names anymore. They just use the search engine/advertisement provider of choice. DNS is of course still very useful to separate service names from physical architecture so you can move stuff around. But I hardly ever see people typing in DNS names or using bookmarks these days.
- kayamon 5y ago> But I hardly ever see people typing in DNS names or using bookmarks these days. How often do you watch other people browse the web?