The European Commission has set a target for 25 per cent of the continent's businesses, authorities and homes to adopt IPv6 – the next generation internet protocol - by 2010. The previous protocol, IPv4, has been in use since 1984 and supports a total of 4.3 billion web addresses. But only 16 per cent of these are still available for the creation of new connections – a situation that could potentially curb the growth of the web.The new protocol will remove this problem by making available a near-infinite selection of new addresses. The transition will take time, but such a move is essential for Europe to make the most of next-generation technology, said Viviane Reding, European commissioner for information society and media. "In the short term, businesses and public authorities might be tempted to try to squeeze their needs into the straitjacket of the old system, but this would mean Europe is badly placed to take advantage of the latest internet technology, and could face a crisis when the old system runs out of addresses," she said.
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Sure Windows Vista et al are starting to dish out IPv6 addresses until ISPs start dishing them out on hand and DNS is fully making use of them I think it will take a good few years yet.
Sure Windows Vista et al are starting to dish out IPv6 addresses until ISPs start dishing them out on hand and DNS is fully making use of them I think it will take a good few years yet.
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and then i can just upgrade as almost all third party firmware (i.e. DD-WRT/Tomato etc etc) is much better than stock firmware anyways.
Last edited by ThaCrip on 27 May 2008 - 23:25
Even if your router doesn't support it, you can still tunnel IPv6 over IPv4.
2010 is way too soon
I mean, software exists for even Windows 98 users to use IPv6 (Trumpet comes to mind)... Theoretically, 2015 wasn't an unrealistic goal at the time. Unfortunately, ISPs don't know how to move their butts fast enough to support the transition. Looking at it from a business perspective, however, some ISPs might be unable to afford the necessary equipment, hence the slow/nonexistent transition.
First get the Internet backbone fully IPv6 compliant and then get the major routing equipment switched to IPv6, then do the same for the small ISPs, and then migrate the rest of the downstream hardware (server farms, webhosting companies, IPv4 browsers, etc.) over to IPv6. That's a lot of work.
It's my understanding that most of the backbone (if not all of it) already has support for IPv6, although most of it is probably running at IPv4 at any given moment just because that's what most of the internet traffic is coded for.
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