OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

Thu Jul 7 11:28:29 UTC 2005

On 7-jul-2005, at 7:16, Alexei Roudnev wrote:

> IPv6 address allocation schema is terrible (who decided to use SP  
> dependent
> spaces?)

Address allocation is unsustainable but that's not IPv6's fault: it's  
done the same way (or even worse) in IPv4. But somehow the industry  
as a whole seems incapable of recognizing that having each and every  
ISP with 200 customers (not even that in AfriNIC/LACNIC regions), no  
matter how regional/local, occupy a place at the top of the global  
addressing hierarchy is a flawed idea.

> security is terrible (who designed IPSec protocol?) and so so on.

Security is terrible by virtue of its nature, which explains why most  
people prefer to be insecure most of the time. IPsec isn't bad,  
although I hate the overhead (although that's childs play compared to  
the epidemic of quoting previous messages verbatim that is now  
spreading among people who should know better) and the fact that it  
operates on addresses makes it hard to use as a replacement for SSL.  
(If you think IPsec is bad, try to implement an application on top of  
SSL.)