Only 5x IPv4 ... WRONG! :)

Wed Oct 20 05:17:04 UTC 2010

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:01:48PM -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> 
> Of course ifconfig will also happily take whatever mask you feed it in
> your choice of notation so it's not exactly a bronze age tool.
> > 


	first - IPv6 isn't 5x IPv4, its only 4x... :)

	and the idea f "bronze-age" tools is generally appealing.

	I'm tempted to make the argument that when we are fulling
	using the IPv4 space, we make the general statement that the
	"Internet" is fully deployed.

	IPv4 == the Internet.

	IPv6 == the next big thing...  to borrow a phrase - the polyphonic-net


	IPv4 has many decades of work, refinement, and general ammalgamation
	into/with what many/most of us are comfortable with wrt business models.

	IPv6 - while it has just over a decade of work, still has a long way
	to go to fulfill its promise. For the oldtimers, remember that it took
	IP a couple of decades to "gel" at version 4.  Sure, we can (and in 
	some cases - MUST) cram the "Internet" model on IPv6, but that is a 
	genuine waste of opportunity.

	
	So ... can we let an IPv6-based "polyphonic-net" embrace, and subsume
	the old, last century Internet?  Or is that asking too much of the 
	sales/marketing droids?


--bill manning