The city of Harrisonburg, Virginia, will experience a wide variety of new Internet-based services with the rollout of citywide Internet Protocol Version 6. Harrisonburg will become the first U.S. city to have a citywide IPv6 network in the third quarter of the year, said Mark Bayliss, director of the Harrisonburg Project and CEO of Visual Link Incorporated, a Winchester, Virginia-based Internet service provider. Harrisonburg has branded itself the "city of the future" and hopes to be a reminder of IPv6’s advantages over IPv4. Harrisonburg has partnered with James Madison University on the project, and the university will use the network for delivering virtual learning services, added Christopher Harz, organizer of the U.S. IPv6 Summit in Reston, Virginia. "Eventually, this will involve training, classrooms and education for a whole bunch of disciplines we haven't even thought of yet," Harz said.
Harz and Bayliss both have many ideas and implementations for IPv6. The way IPv6 connects computers will facilitate mobile commerce, enabling mobile-phone users to buy tickets and download a bar code that can be displayed on the phone instead of carrying a physical ticket. In addition, IPv6's more efficient network routing will allow for the cost of providing Internet-based video services to drop by huge amounts. Because it has nearly unlimited network address space, IPv6 will also allow documents to have their own network address, creating a new field of authentication and Web-based notary services. Harrisonburg will also provide IPv6 for its emergency response agencies, including voice, data and map services. The city plans to start demonstrating eight IPv6 products soon: a test area for military and civilian applications is slated for the third quarter of this year.
News source: ComputerWorld
Harz and Bayliss both have many ideas and implementations for IPv6. The way IPv6 connects computers will facilitate mobile commerce, enabling mobile-phone users to buy tickets and download a bar code that can be displayed on the phone instead of carrying a physical ticket. In addition, IPv6's more efficient network routing will allow for the cost of providing Internet-based video services to drop by huge amounts. Because it has nearly unlimited network address space, IPv6 will also allow documents to have their own network address, creating a new field of authentication and Web-based notary services. Harrisonburg will also provide IPv6 for its emergency response agencies, including voice, data and map services. The city plans to start demonstrating eight IPv6 products soon: a test area for military and civilian applications is slated for the third quarter of this year.
News source: ComputerWorld
And how many gamers have a dns name instead of an IP address when hosting and joining internet games?
Me: Hey Bob, whats your IP so I can connect to your game?
Bob: 2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:0000:1428:57ab
Me: Whoah!
And how many gamers have a dns name instead of an IP address when hosting and joining internet games?
Me: Hey Bob, whats your IP so I can connect to your game?
Bob: 2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:0000:1428:57ab
Me: Whoah!
no [dash] ip [dot] com does quite well. I use it for my internet games (among other things).
And how many gamers have a dns name instead of an IP address when hosting and joining internet games?
Me: Hey Bob, whats your IP so I can connect to your game?
Bob: 2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:0000:1428:57ab
Me: Whoah!
Good thing that that can be reduced to:
2001:db8::1428:57ab
But you'd know that, since you copied it right out of the wikipedia article
Rumbled
Yeah you can omit multiple groups of zeros with :: and can miss of leading zeros in each group. But not all addresses are going to have that many zeros to remove
The whole 'tickets on phone' thing has been around for a while already
http://www.mbo.com/web/index.jsp
We have just over 4 billion IP addresses, and over 6 billion humans, so there we can't have each person connected unless we start doing odd things with routing.
That's been available in Germany for public transportation fares for quite a while.
The same was said of IPv4, and look how saturated it is now.
Reminds me of the "who will ever need more than 640k conventional memory?"
Actually there are 2^128 addresses, hence: 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456.
That is 79,228,162,514,264,337,593,543,950,336 times more than IPv4.
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