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Since you didn't propose a better standard during these decades, IPv6 is likely to stay. Why it's poor btw?
by mkup 14y ago
Since you didn't propose a better standard during these decades, IPv6 is likely to stay. Why it's poor btw?
- quink 14y agoMaybe he said this about IPv4 - it's still not applicable though. Either that, or he would have said the same thing about IPv4 twenty years ago.
- mjwalshe 14y agoyep I remember my boss telling me about ip exhaustion must have been around about 20 years ago.
- mjwalshe 14y agoNO Migration stratergy it was designed back when the internet was just some academic curiosity which ment you could do disruptive changes over the academic summer break. Even in the 80's it was obvious that this would not work for ipv4 to ipv6. IPv6 have been dropped 20+ years ago and a more fit for purporse stndard devloped.
- DougBTX 14y agoIt looks like they started work on IPv6 in 1994[1], so I doubt migration issues have been known about since the 80s. [1] http://www.ipv6.com/articles/general/timeline-of-ipv6.htm http://www.ipv6.com/articles/general/timeline-of-ipv6.htm
- mjwalshe 14y agoer they started talking about a replacement for ipv4 in the 80's
- mjwalshe 14y agowell I was only a lowly MPG2 back then :-) and probaly all the stadards work BT where doing at that was more towards OSI and SS7 standards - where inetropablity and uptime was the holy grail. Its peopel like Vint that took thier eye off the ball.
- rwmj 14y agoWhat they really should have done is extend IPv4 addresses using an option header in packets, which (with a small amount of effort) provides a fall-back and is nowhere near as disruptive as trying to enable IPv6 everywhere.
- zmb_ 14y agoIn theory, perhaps. In reality this is not feasible because the hardware guys would never go for it. The mere existence of an IPv4 header extension causes a packet to be kicked out of the hardware fast path (or dropped entirely) by all the router implementations that I know.
- mjwalshe 14y agoPrecisely the sort of thing I was getting at before I got modded down to oblivion.
- tomjen3 14y agoIt is not backwards compatible. Yeah I know that is HARD, but that is why we have smart people to write the standards.