jps wrote:
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:09:56 -0500, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:02:50 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

I wonder if this happens in 2012. Probably. This is really an odd
confluence of events, eh wot?
Nope-a-rooney dude-a-reeno...

New protocol designed and implimented a couple of years or so ago I
believe. I'm sure our resident Super Genius Paste Eater already has
it implimented in all his computers.

Hey, dildo -- all computers the last two years have an IPv6 stack.
It'll take years to convert to IPv6 and both with be able to run
concurrently. So, even a hoser like you will be fine.

The real problem is there is no real need to change. Why toss out the
telco/cable infrastructure when you dont need to? Just to make Cisco
richer? Hardly.

Look at IP4 as 2^32 points of presence. 4,294 million addresses, just
shy of one per person on the planet. 1/4 is pure technical waste,
upper, lower brodcast/router and 2 IPs in the mddle for one household.
Makes a little over a billion addresses.

Next, you have political waste, 1/2 of the existing space is pure dark.
Some companies are cyber squating on large blocks of IP addresses
like real-estate speculators waiting for political balls to re-allocate it.

And companies, even organzations the size f the US government can use
reserved address space and run the who organization on as little as 1000
IPs quite easily. In fact, it would help thier security issues to do so.

In your home all 6 residents might have a PC, but on the internet it is
one public IP.

Don't oversell IP6. Nice academic excercise. IP4 has a ong way to go
yet. And many technical issues remain on the conversion.

It's not PCs that are at risk but the IPv4 devices that are in the
field when the transition to IPv6 is complete.

Keep up, your personal slags will have more bite.

Correct, but add changing some 100's of millions of devices and PCs all
at once. Not going to happen. In the mean time it is limited pretty
much to academia on private networks, often tunneled through IP4 to make
it woek. Unless you have enough cash to rent/buy your own fiber.