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Re: "The Future is Tomorrow" - Go IPv6 young man grow up with your network

At 9:58 AM -0700 6/6/07, Noah Abrahamson wrote: 
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On Jun 5, 2007, at 5:14 PM, Jaime Magiera wrote:

Thanks for the heads up Dan. This was very informative.

I'm still amazed that it took so long -- and that there are many OS/tools out there which are not prepared.

I think perhaps the greatest barrier to widespread IPv6 adoption or implementation isn't so much operating systems, tools and devices so much as it is people, knowledge and skills. IPv6 makes for a great Wikipedia article, however it remains a strange concept for a lot of people who work with technology, on all levels.

Yet you work in an IPv6 environment, presumably daily, and it's more than academic.

While "we're running out of IP addresses" is a pretty easy message to comprehend and appreciate, the move to IPv6 is unprecedented.

Hardly. It's been coming and planned since before most people heard of the Internet, certainly probably as long as you've probably been on "the Net".

What do we compare it to? The Y2K bug? At least Y2K had an obvious timeline; we only needed to look at the calendar. Do I risk breaking the internet when I add one more printer to my small business or research university? And whom do we mobilize? Is this something that will require armies of expensive consultants? Or can I do this myself, or does this require specialized knowledge? If the latter is true, how will I (or can I) fit this into my education plans? If I'm a medium-sized business, this an issue that will be resolved by my vendors, or my ISP, the networking person at my company, my systems administrator, the interns at the help desk?

The same way you haven't fit into your plans how other large swarths of OS X operate ;)

IPv6 has been a message we've been hearing for years; it kinda reminds me of the metric adoption in the United States.

It's far from this. While the Metric System is offically the adopted standard in the U.S., it's not in common usage.

What are you going to do when your ISP assigns you your next CIDR block in IPv6 space? Punt?
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-dhan

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