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Why do you object to me stating my desire that Apple would augment
their tool so it is suitable for my needs?
Because right now, iChat is not the app for IPv6.
What would be a better direction is to push one of the
high - end conferencing vendors, because multipoint conferencing would
benefit FAR more from IPv6 than iChat. Or, start pushing the QuickTime
Streaming Server team.
I don't know anyone who uses AIM.
Then you don't know a lot of people. ;-)
Actually, if you know anyone who uses iChat, you know people who use AIM.
:-) Apple is WAY behind on Microsoft when it comes to IPv6... I'm not
even mentioning the Unix family.
Who cares.
People on this list maybe?
But they are NOT the target iChat market.
This inability of the tech
community to pick battles better is a real killer in getting technology to
move forward. Streaming media likt QuickTime Streaming Server, Real, Windows
Video are FAR better targets than iChat, they would get more of a benefit on
the server AND the client end.
IPv6 is a research toy to the rest of the world, and will be for a
number of years to come.
To most people the internet is a toy anyway.
Not at all. Even at the home level, the internet is a critical way to
communicate both professionally and personally,
and there are very few
businesses in areas with the infrastructure to support it that are not
relying on the Internet as a mission - critical infrastructure.
In the modern world, the Internet is as critical as power and phone service.
IPv6 was never a research project. If not for the advent of ethernet
switches many enterprises would have been running production IPv6 by
now.
You also forgot NAT and CIDR.
The addressing reasons are the worst reasons to push IPv6.
That was handled a while ago. Quite honestly, no one in their
right mind is remembering an IPv6 address anyway.
But it's the other
properties of IPv6 that need to get pushed. All I ever see are
propeller-heads talking about address space. That's a chimera.
What SHOULD be the point is built - in security, QoS, etc.
Sorry to say, there are very few real world problems with NAT that are
insurmountable with relative ease. It's not the most elegant solution,
but it works for most of us.
That's because most of us don't use voice over IP and similar
applications.
Um, I've been using it for years. You can make it work in a NAT situation.
Their reasoning is that IPv4 only has a few usable
years left, so building something new that only works with IPv4 would
be a mistake, and they can tunnel IPv6 whereever there is IPv4 present
anyway,
Then they better start flogging switch and router makers, and work some
deals with ISPs.
And I still say there's at LEAST 4-5 years of IPv4 dominance left,
maybe more at current adoption rates, because I have yet to
see anyone come up with an app that is compelling at the infrastructure
level.
The DoD move shows that the expectation that IPv6 will be adopted is
creating momentum for the actual adoption.
Um...you haven't dealt with the DoD much have you. When I see it happening,
I'll believe it. It's a nice idea, but until money has been approved AND
appropriated, and the project has survived at least one Administration
change, it's a fantasy. If you bought other DoD moves, we'd all be using
OSI, not TCP/IP, and programming in ADA.
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